See also:

• SAMUEL

SAMUEL See also:

• SAMUEL GOMPERS (1850— )

GOMPERS (1850— )  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American labour See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• LONDON

London on the 27th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1850 . He was put to See also:

• WORK

work in a See also:

• SHOE (a word appearing in the Teutonic languages in various forms, as Ger. Schuh, Swed. and Dan. sko, sometimes supposed to come from an unknown root ska or sku, cover)

shoe-factory when ten years old, but soon became apprenticed to a See also:

• CIGAR

cigar-maker, removed to New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York in 1863, became a prominent member of the See also:

• INTERNATIONAL, THE

International Cigar-makers' See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

Union, was its delegate at the See also:

• CONVENTION (Lat. conventio, an assembly or agreement, from convenire, to come together)
• CONVENTION, THE NATIONAL

convention of the Federation of Organized See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

Trade and Labor Unions of the See also:

• UNITED

United States and See also:

• CANADA

Canada, later known as the American Federation of Labor, of which he became first See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

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 See also:

• YEAR

year . In 1894 he became editor of the Federation's See also:

• ORGAN

organ, The American Federationist .