Gompers

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• Samuel Gompers, the first president of the American Federation of Labor, was head of the cigar makers' union.

  Academic text (1995)

• By 2010, the percentage of private sector employees who belonged to a union had plummeted to 6.9%—the lowest level since 1900 when Samuel Gompers' fast-growing movement first counted a million members and 6.5 percent of the workforce.

  Blog text (24)

• Union leaders like Samuel Gompers compared the situation to Tsarist Russia.

  The Great War

• In 1912, when the first leader of our organization, Samuel Gompers, met with the first leader of the Boy Scouts of America, James E. West, to talk about working together, the Boy Scouts of America had been in existence less than two years.

  Academic text (1998)

• Later, Gompers came around, profusely thanking Wilson for giving him the pen with which the Clayton Antitrust bill was signed into law a year later.

  Academic text (2013)

• To restrict immigration, however desirable from Gompers' point of view, did not answer what to do about the majority of the working class, which was by 1910 already of immigrant origins.

  Academic text (1997)

• Initially rejected by Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, Wilson's compromise was accepted by labor's congressional allies in May 1913.

  Academic text (2013)

• Nationalist leaders criticized Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and other labor union officials for supporting immigration restriction, accusing them of fomenting anti-immigrant hysteria by "working hand in hand with American fanatics and chauvinists."

  Academic text (1998)

• Samuel Gompers played a pivotal role in shaping labor rights in the United States.

• As the founding president of the American Federation of Labor, Gompers advocated for workers' rights.

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