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- Broken Promises: The Failure of American Labor Law. Grady, James T. // Labor Law Journal;Mar90, Vol. 41 Issue 3, p151
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- Gompers, Labor Chief. HUSSLEIN, JOSEPH // America;4/25/1925, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p29
A biography of U. S. Labor Chief Samuel Gompers is presented. He knew poverty from childhood, having acquainted with the housing problem in their apartment in England. He was sent to a Jewish free school in England at the age of six and had to being working at the age of ten. As a family man, he...
- THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT SINCE THE WAR. Saposs, David J. // Quarterly Journal of Economics;Feb35, Vol. 49 Issue 2, p236
The article presents information on the labor movement in the U.S. during the 1930s. In 1931 unionism was in the doldrums, thoughtful labor leaders and students were seriously speculating whether the union movement would withstand the apparently unending depression. A memorial for Samuel...
- Themes for Labor Day. // America;8/23/1952, Vol. 87 Issue 21, p493
The author reflects on the celebration and honoring of Peter J. McGuire, father of Labor Day, of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners (AFL) provides occasion for a traditional trade-union blast at socialism. The author presents a quote on McGuire and Socialist theorist Samuel Gompers...
- SAMUEL GOMPERS. Baron, Robert C.; Scinta, Samuel; Staten, Pat // Millennium 2000 -- 20th Century America: 100 Influential People;1995, p40
This article presents biography of labor leader Samuel Gompers. Gompers was born in London, England. When he was 13, the Gompers family of eleven migrated to the Lower East Side of New York City. He went to work with his father in a cigar making factory and joined the local union. By the time he...
- Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor in Puerto Rico. Sanabria, Carlos // Centro Journal;Spring2005, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p141
This article focuses on the role that Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor played in Puerto Rico during the early years of the twentieth century. Specifically, it traces the origins of the Federaci�n Libre's association to AFL and Gompers' effort to promote his views among...
- The A. F. of L. in Politics. // New Republic;4/7/20, Vol. 22 Issue 279, p175
Comments on the labor program of U.S. labor leader Samuel Gompers. Objection against autocratic corporation influence against covert attacks upon trade unionism; Revulsion to the threat to deprive labor of its right to strike action; Emphasis on problems of production and distribution;...
- GOMPERS, SAMUEL. Salvatore, Nick // Reader's Companion to American History;1991, p456
The article profiles Samuel Gompers, the cofounder and first president of the American Federation of Labor. Taught both the tobacco trade and union principles by his father, he thrived in the heady atmosphere that surrounded New York's labor movement during the 1870's. He preferred the creation...
- The Predicament of Organized Labor. // New Republic;12/2/16, Vol. 9 Issue 109, p114
Analyzes the dilemma faced by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, who has decided to support the railroad employee's union Brotherhoods in their acceptance of the Adamson law, a law on legislative enactment which is opposed by Gompers. Gompers' opposition to...
