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American Federation of Labor

(AFL), a trade union organization in the USA, in existence during 1881–1955. It was called the Federation of Organized Trade Unions of the USA and Canada until 1886, when it became the AFL.

The AFL primarily united the qualified upper stratum of the working class. The trade unions of the AFL were basically organized around a skilled handicraft which hindered the unification of workers in a particular enterprise or an entire industry. During its first years the AFL played an important role in the battle for the eight-hour working day. However, as a result of the politics espoused by right-wing professional leaders—S. Gompers and others—the AFL had already been transformed into an antisocialist, conservative organization by the end of the 19th century. The leaders of the AFL made it difficult in many ways for nonqualified workers, especially Negroes and also immigrants, to enter the trade unions. The right-wing leadership of the AFL pursued a policy of class collaboration with employers, opposed independent participation of the working class in political struggles, and supported the internal and external policies of the rulers of the USA on the most important issues. After the victory of the October Revolution in Russia, the leadership of the AFL adopted a position extremely hostile to Soviet Russia and encouraged the intervention of the USA against the Soviet republic. The leaders of the AFL opposed the creation of the World Federation of Trade Unions (1945) and then took an active part in organizing the dissident International Conference of Free Trade Unions.

In 1955 the AFL (with approximately 10 million members) merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations to form a professional amalgamation, the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations.

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Lenin, V. I. “Sekretariu ‘Ligi sotsialisticheskoi propagandy,’ “ Poln. sobr. soch., 5th ed., vol. 27.
Lenin, V. I. “Detskaia bolezn’ ‘levizny’ v kommunizme.” Poln. sobr. soch., vol. 41.
Zubok, L. I. Ocherk istorii SSA. Moscow, 1956. Pages 90–93.
Foner, P. Istoriia rabochego dvizheniia v SSA, vols. 1–4. Moscow, 1949–69. (Translated from English.)
Askol’dova, S. M. Nachalo massovogo rabochego dvizheniia v SSA. Moscow, 1966.

L. F. KHITROV

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Here, drawing on his close ties with the American Federation of Labor, he presents a history of the labor movement in the first quarter of the 20th century.

American Labor and American Democracy. (reprint, 1926) by Reference & Research Book News

It's the deepest schism since the American Federation of Labor expelled the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1937 - a rift that was not healed until 1955 - but the result could be a re-energized labor movement.

The AFL-CIO's divorce by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

The American Federation of Labor and Congress on Industrial Organizations as the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, with Chavez as its president, chartered the union in 1966.

PALMDALE PLAYHOUSE TO HOST TRIBUTE TO CESAR CHAVEZ by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

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