The Samuel Gompers Papers, Volumen7

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University of Illinois Press, 1986 - 582 páginas
Looking around him in 1906, Samuel Gompers saw a labor movement beset
by opponents who, he said, "represent neither conscience nor humanity,
but rather greed and avarice." This installment in the multivolume
documentary history of the nation's premier labor leader spotlights a
pivotal period in the AFL's development.

"The editors have done their job well, succeeding admirably in their
aim of presenting a multidimensional portrait of Gompers and his era."

-- Bernard Elbaum, Journal of Economic History
"A distinguished and invaluable collection." -- Bruce Laurie,
Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Supported by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
and the University of Maryland at College Park

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Labors Bill of Grievances Mar 21 1906
8
From William Merrick Apr 17 1906
14
From John Flynn June 4 1906
44
Elmer Robinson to Frank Morrison June 14 1906
51
To Stuart Reid June 30 1906
57
A Circular July 22 1906
64
From W D Mahon Aug 13 1906 69
92
To Henry Cooper Apr 26 1906
95
To the Executive Council of the AFL Dec 23 1907
287
To the Executive Council of the AFL Jan 10 1908
295
To James Lynch Jan 24 1908
301
To Arthur Hay Feb 8 1908
305
To the Executive Council of the AFL Feb 17 1908
312
To the Executive Council of the AFL Mar 3 1908
318
To Theodore Roosevelt Mar 19 1908
322
An Editorial by Samuel Gompers in the American Federationist
329

From John Adair Aug 25 1906
99
26
105
From Ernest Pape Oct 4 1906
111
To W J McCulley Oct 19 1906
118
R Lee Guard to Stuart Reid Nov 13 1906
126
37
132
To the Executive Council of the AFL Dec 21 1906
143
To the Executive Council of the AFL Dec 21 1906
144
From James FitzGerald Dec 27 1906
150
To William Costello Jan 22 1907
156
To Daniel Keefe Jan 22 1907
162
From William Mallory J R Jones and R F Harris
164
To Thomas Spight Feb 7 1907
169
To B Kuppenheimer and Co Feb 13 1907
178
From Jerome Jones Feb 23 1907
187
To Theodore Roosevelt Mar 6 1907
195
From William Whitcomb Mar 30 1907
202
From Frank Morrison Apr 8 1907
208
To John Lennon Apr 29 1907
217
To the Executive Council of the AFL June 1 1907
223
To the Officers and Members of AFL 11594 June 29 1907
230
From John Golden July 19 1907
236
To Frank Duffy Aug 3 1907
242
To Frank Morrison Sept 11 1907
250
To Morris Brown Oct 17 1907
254
To the Executive Council of the AFL Oct 30 1907
266
To William Dobson Dec 16 1907
281
Richard Croskey to Samuel Gompers and Frank Morrison
285
To George Reiss May 6 1908
337
Grant Hamilton June 1 1908
343
To William Jennings Bryan June 27 1908
351
To the Executive Council of the AFL July 22 1908
356
From E N Nockels July 27 1908
362
From William Jennings Bryan Aug 1 1908
369
To Norman Mack Aug 28 1908
376
From Arthur Hay Sept 8 1908
383
A Circular Sept 15 1908
389
To James Cumming Sept 24 1908
396
To DeElbert Reynolds Oct 7 1908
405
A Circular Oct 17 1908
412
Excerpts from News Accounts of the 1908 Convention of
418
To J D Pierce Dec 5 1908
428
To Francis Monnett Dec 30 1908
438
To Charles Thompson Joseph Whyte and Harry Goodrell
446
To the Executive Council of the AFL Feb 23 1909
452
To Charles Fear Mar 29 1909
459
To Alton Parker Apr 12 1909
465
To Julia Morris June 7 1909
471
An Excerpt from a News Account of an Address at a Labour
477
A Translation of an Excerpt from an Article in Vorwärts
483
An Article in the New York Times Aug 30 1909
487
George Bodine to the Executive Council of the AFL
493
GLOSSARY
503
Excerpts from Testimony before the Committee on Labor
521
INDEX
555
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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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