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GOMPERS, SAMUEL (1850— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 230 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOMPERS, See also:SAMUEL (1850— ) , See also:American labour See also:leader, was See also:born in See also:London on the 27th of See also:January 1850. He was put to See also:work in a See also:shoe-factory when ten years old, but soon became apprenticed to a See also:cigar-maker, removed to New See also:York in 1863, became a prominent member of the See also:International Cigar-makers' See also:Union, was its delegate at the See also:convention of the Federation of Organized See also:Trade and Labor Unions of the See also:United States and See also:Canada, later known as the American Federation of Labor, of which he became first See also: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. In 1894 he became editor of the Federation's See also:organ, The American Federationist.

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