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Name: Samuel Gompers
Birth Date: January 27, 1850
Death Date: December 13, 1924
Place of Birth: London, England
Place of Death: San Antonio, Texas, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: union leader, union organizer

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Biography of Samuel Gompers
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The American labor leader Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was the most significant single figure in the history of the American labor movement. He founded and was the first president of the American Federation of Labor. Few great social movements have been...
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Biography of Samuel Gompers
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Samuel Gompers is best remembered as a trade-labor organizer, statesman, loyal friend of the working class, and fierce advocate for workers' rights and protections. Perhaps because he came of age in the era of the U.S. Civil War, Gompers developed a...


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Samuel Gompers Quotes
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no...


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Samuel Gompers Information
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Samuel Gompers (January 27, 1850[1] - December 13, 1924) was an American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and held the position as president of the organization for all...


News and Journals
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Monthly Labor Review
Samuel Gompers: a half century in labor's front rank.
07/01/1989: 5,566 words, approx. 19 pages
Irwin Yellowitz is a professor of history at The City College of the City University of New York. 'I want to live for one thing alone-to leave a better labor movement in America and in the world than I found it when...
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Business History
The Samuel Gompers Papers, vol. 4: A National Labor Movement Takes Shape: 1895-98. (book reviews)
04/01/1993: 467 words, approx. 2 pages
Samuel Gompers was a (and, for much of the time, the) major moderate figure in the American labour movement for nearly four decades from the late 1880s. This volume deals with the mid-1890s when Gompers, like the Lib-Lab old guard in the TUC...
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AP News
Home-based child care workers seek union
11/11/2007: 883 words, approx. 3 pages
Jennie Rivera works 10-hour days taking care of children in her lower Manhattan apartment and has never had a paid vacation or earned more than $13,000 a year.Rivera hopes that will change now that she's cast her lot, along with thousands of other child-care providers...
 


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