Samuel Gompers (né Gumpertz; January 27, 1850 – December 13, 1924) was a British-born American cigar maker, labor union leader and a key figure in American...
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USS Samuel Gompers (AD-37) was a destroyer tender, the first of her class, and designed to be a floating repair shop for ships of the U.S. Navy either...
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The lot where the statue stands was renamed Samuel Gompers Memorial Park in 1955. The memorial depicts Gompers seated and six figures behind him, each representing...
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40°48′37″N 73°54′27″W / 40.8103°N 73.9074°W / 40.8103; -73.9074 Samuel Gompers Career and Technical Education High School was a public vocational school...
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in his posthumously-published memoirs Samuel Gompers provides the complete text of the call. See: Gompers, Samuel Seventy Years of Life and Labor: An Autobiography...
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The Samuel Gompers-class destroyer tenders were a class of ships that served the United States Navy from 1967 to 1996. Their namesake was union leader...
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but avoided strikes. The new American Federation of Labor, headed by Samuel Gompers, found the solution. The AFL was a coalition of unions, each based on...
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early 20th centuries. The house was from 1902 until 1917 home to Samuel Gompers. Gompers, a native of England, came to the United States as a young man...
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Gompers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bill Gompers (1928–2019), American football player Louis Gompers (1902–1981), Dutch diver...
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government-owned Rock Island Arsenal in early 1911, it was opposed by Samuel Gompers, founder and President of the American Federation of Labor (an alliance...
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"inexcusably ignorant and maliciously false," said Gompers. Referring to the birth of the IWW, Gompers commented that "[t]he mountain labored and brought...
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William H. Foster of the ITU defeated Samuel Gompers. In 1886, the Cigar Makers' Union leader, Samuel Gompers, was elected AFL president. The ITU was...
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single. He had five siblings, including a brother, Dave. He attended Samuel Gompers High School, and did not attend college, and he stated that he "got...
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Coolidge received a telegram from AFL leader Samuel Gompers. "Whatever disorder has occurred", Gompers wrote, "is due to Curtis's order in which the...
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Samuel Gompers Houses, also known as Gompers Houses, is a public housing development built and maintained by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)...
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1980 to 1996. The Yellowstone class was a repetition of the preceding Samuel Gompers class, so that sometimes all ships are put in one class. All ships were...
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Max S. Hayes (section Challenge to Gompers)
socialist politician. In 1912 Hayes became the first candidate to challenge Samuel Gompers for the presidency of the American Federation of Labor in nearly a decade...
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historic building that was owned by Admiral George Remy, labor leader Samuel Gompers, the American War Mothers, and Harry Garfield, son of President James...
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itemized cost breakdown. In 1911, American union leaders including Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor expressed opposition to lump sums...
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insurgents against Gompers and may have sabotaged a compromise which would have permitted Gompers to step down. The experience embittered Gompers against the...
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"Mr. Samuel Gompers Replies to Our Criticism". The Single Tax Review. 21–22: 42. Retrieved 31 August 2014. Gompers, Samuel (1986). The Samuel Gompers Papers:...
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society. The strikers were called "deserters" and "agents of Lenin". Samuel Gompers of the AFL recognized that the strike was damaging the cause of labor...
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Movement in the American Midwest, and in 1894, McBride unseated labor icon Samuel Gompers as president of the American Federation of Labor. He held that role...
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was increasingly upstaged by the American Federation of Labor under Samuel Gompers, which coordinated numerous specialized craft unions that appealed to...
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speeches were "mere pieces of the literature of criminal violence". Samuel Gompers, the president of the American Federation of Labor and who had endorsed...
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Interior Carl Schurz, industrialist Andrew Carnegie, and labor leader Samuel Gompers. During the first half of 1899 the number of "paper" Vice-Presidents...
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ISBN 978-0-313-30822-2. Gompers, Samuel; Stuart J Kaufman; Peter J. Albert; Grace Palladino (May 25, 1999). The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 7: The American...
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Moravian-Austrian philologist Will Gompertz (born 1964), British arts journalist Samuel Gompers (1850-1924), US labour organizer and founder of the AFL Dr Rebecca Gomperts...
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Culture (2004), 264pp Gompers, Samuel. Seventy Years of Life and Labor (1925, 1985 reprint) online Gompers, Samuel. The Samuel Gompers Papers (1986– ) definitive...
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Carolina) Virginia class (USS Virginia, USS Mississippi) Samuel Gompers class (USS Samuel Gompers) Yellowstone class (USS Yellowstone, USS Acadia, USS Cape...
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