Samuel Gompers by Emma Goldman [Published in The Road to Freedom (New York), Vol. 1, March 1925.] The numerous tributes paid to the late President of the American Federation of Labor, emphasized his ...

The monument recognizes the labor leader's fight for the eight-hour workday and the end of child workers. But his legacy is more complicated. At the corner of Pulaski Road and Foster Avenue on Chicago ...

Samuel Gompers is best-known for founding the American Federation of Labor, which remains one of the most influential unions in the nation and has led to legions of laborers throughout the United ...

When Express-News columnist Marcy Meffert read last Sunday's story on “A History of San Antonio in 50 Objects,” she reported one missing. “Did you ever come across the statue of Samuel Gompers, ...

The organization that was a few years later to become the American Federation of Labor began in 1881. In the autumn of 1885 the New York Sun delegated a reporter to “get up a story on the strength and ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian Richard Norton Smith talked about Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and the monument in Washington, DC ...