The Samuel Gompers Papers, Volume 1

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University of Illinois Press, 1986 - 529 halaman

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Samuel Gompers Childhood in London and His Early Years
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An Excerpt from the FortyThird Report of the Jews Free
9
Entries for the Gompers Family on the Passenger List of
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A Translation of a Pamphlet by Carl Hillmann May 1873
22
Samuel Gompers and Early Cigarmakers Unions in
45
A Translation of an Article in the ArbeiterZeitung July 5 1873
48
A Translation of an Article in the SocialDemokrat Dec
55
A Translation of an Article in the SocialDemokrat Oct
66
An Article in the Cigar Makers Official Journal Apr 15 1882
260
An Excerpt from a News Account of a Mass Meeting
269
The FOTLU the KOL and the EightHour Campaign
275
Excerpts from Two News Accounts of the Second Annual
282
Excerpts from Samuel Gompers Testimony before
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An Excerpt from an Article in John Swintons Paper
356
A Call for Establishing the EightHour Day July 7 1885
363
To the Members of the CMIU Nov 13 1885
369

Adolph Strasser to the Editor of the Cigar Makers Official Journal
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Martin Doyle to the Editor of the Labor Standard Oct
85
To John Walker Mar 1 1877
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A News Account of a Mass Meeting of Cigarmakers
92
Two News Accounts of a Mass Meeting at Cooper Union
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A News Account of a Mass Meeting of Cigarmakers
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A News Account of a Mass Meeting of Cigarmakers at Cooper
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A Committee of CMIU 144 to the Editor of the Cigar Makers
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A News Account of a Mass Meeting at Cooper Union Jan
151
To the Editor of the Cigar Makers Official Journal Dec 1 1880
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The CMIU Campaign against TenementHouse Cigar
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A Series of News Accounts of the Founding Convention of
210
Excerpts from the Minutes of the Legislative Committee of
232
The Cigarmakers and the Labor Movement in New York City
247
A Circular Letter Issued by the CMIU Locals of New York
375
An Excerpt from an Article in the United States Tobacco Journal
381
A Call for a Conference of National and International
389
A Committee of the Philadelphia Trade Union Conference
395
An Excerpt from a News Account of the Cleveland General
402
The General Executive Board to Members of
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An Excerpt from an Article in the Tobacco Leaf July 31 1886
415
An Excerpt from an Article in the United States Tobacco Journal
421
An Article in the United States Tobacco Journal Sept 4 1886
422
A Resolution Introduced by District Assembly 49 at
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An Excerpt from a News Account of a Mass Meeting
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GLOSSARY
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INDEX
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Samuel Gompers, January 26, 1850 - December 13, 1924 Samuel Gompers was born on january 26, 1924 in London, England. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker at the age of ten, but soon became a cigar maker when his family emigrated to New York in 1863. By 1885, Gompers was an expert cigar maker, and was hired by a large cigar shop. Gompers was highly respected by his fellow employees at the cigar shop, and they eventually elected him as President of the Cigar Makers Union Local 144. In 1881, Gompers was sent as a delegate to a conference of other unions. There the various unions created a confederation called the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Councils. Gompers became a sort of a leader for the Federation, but the union was weak and ineffective. The organization was reconstituted in 1886 as the American Federation of Labor with Gompers as the President. He held this position for 38 years, till the day he died. Four years after the reconstitution, the AFL represented 250,000 workers. In two more years, the number rose to over one million. At the conclusion of World War I, Gompers attended the Versailles Treaty negotiations, where he was instrumental in creating the International Labor Organization under the League of Nations. He supported trade unionism in Mexico and even attended the inauguration of Mexico's reform President Calles. He also attended the Congress of the Pan-American Federation of Labor. It was at this Congress where Gompers collapsed and was rushed to a San Antonio, Texas hospital where he died on December 13, 1924.

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