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Gompers, Samuel

Born Jan. 27, 1850, in London; died Dec. 13, 1924, in San Antonio, Texas. USA trade union figure and reformist.

Gompers moved to the USA from Great Britain in 1863 and began to work in the tobacco industry. In 1881 he actively participated in the formation of the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada (after 1886, the American Federation of Labor, or AF of L). From 1882 to 1924 (except 1895) he was chairman of the federation. He opposed the participation of the working class in the political struggle, maintaining that trade unions should confine themselves to economic questions. V. I. Lenin pointed out that people like Gompers “are nothing but representatives of the aristocracy and bureaucracy of the working class” (Poln. sobr. soch., 5th ed., vol. 27, p. 73). Gompers participated in the formation of reformist international labor alliances—the Pan-American Federation of Labor (1918) and the Amsterdam International of Trade Unions (1919). During World War I (1914–18), he took a chauvinistic stand. He was extremely hostile toward Soviet Russia and opposed recognition of the USSR.

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Lenin, V. I. Poln. sobr. soch., 5th ed., vol. 25, p. 106; vol. 27, p. 73; vol. 37, pp. 64, 113, 297, 391, 454–55, 458; vol. 39, p. 190; vol. 41, pp. 35, 38. 268.
Mandel, B. Samuel Gompers: A Biography. Yellow Springs [Ohio], 1963.

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But there's long been a big push to organize a class of workers who don't fit the stereotype of hod carriers, carpenters, steelworkers and miners: Among today's heaviest hitters among organized labor are the public-employee unions, whose members already had the kind of job security Samuel Gompers would have given his eyeteeth to have seen a century ago.

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ISBN: 9780060747497 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette **** "Lears vividly recounts the rise of populism and its more sophisticated relative, progressivism, the union movement, from the conciliatory Samuel Gompers to the violent Big Bill Haywood of the Wobblies, and the American Socialist Party and its eloquent blue-collar candidate, Eugene V.

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In his house, he said, he used to have a poster quoting the American trade unionist Samuel Gompers, headed, "What does Labor Want?

Regroup, refocus, reprioritise - and that starts at the top by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

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