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SAMUEL GOMPERS (1850— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 230 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL GOMPERS (1850— )  ,
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American labour leader, was born in
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London on the 27th of
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January 1850 . He was put to
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work in a shoe-factory when ten years old, but soon became apprenticed to a
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cigar-maker, removed to New York in 1863, became a prominent member of the International Cigar-makers' Union, was its delegate at the convention of the Federation of Organized Trade and Labor Unions of the
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United States and
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Canada, later known as the American Federation of Labor, of which he became first president in 1882 . He was, successively re-elected up to 1895, when the opposition of the Socialist Labor Party, then attempting to incorporate the Federation into itself, secured his defeat; he was re-elected in the following
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year . In 1894 he became editor of the Federation's
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organ, The American Federationist .

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