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 ...

“We have started on a great big national fight with the union movement at stake!” Max Hayes, socialist newspaper editor and union leader, thundered to the assembled representatives of Cleveland, ...

Teachers at a charter school in the Chollas View neighborhood of San Diego voted Wednesday to decertify their union, following a years-long battle over labor representation and control there. The vote ...

Work will be started soon in Washington on the monument to the late Samuel Gompers, the London-born Jew who was for many years President of the American Federation of Labour, and the work will be ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Samuel Gompers's vision of capitalist-friendly unionism and political pragmatism largely dominated the labor movement throughout ...

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 ...