Word: labor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor, will deliver a lecture on "Organized Labor's Potency for the Common Weal" this evening at 8 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union, under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...Gompers has been connected with workingmen's organizations for many years. He is responsible more than any other one man for the strength of labor unions in this country today. Believing that in unity workingmen have the strength to treat with their employers on a basis of equality he has persuaded a great number of unions to join the American Federation of Labor, of which with the exception of one year, he has been since 1882 the president...
...Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, will deliver a lecture upon "Organized Labor's Potency for the Common Weal" on Thursday evening, April 27, at 8 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union, under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association...
Since he was fourteen years old Mr. Gompers has been identified with efforts to organize labor, believing that in unity working men can treat with their employers on a more equal basis. He is responsible more than any one other man for the present strength of labor unions in this country. He is a cigar maker by trade, and was one of the founders of the American Federation of Labor, of which he has been president, with the exception of one year, since 1882. Mr. Gompers is also the author of a number of pamphlets on the labor question...
...third issue of "Bothsides," which appears today, contains the following: "Proposed Retorm in Intercollegiate Debating," by the Princeton Debating Committee: "The Stanford-California Debate on Church and State in France," by Professor R. M. Alden, of the University of California: "The George Washington-Virginia Debate on Incorporation of Labor Unions," by S. Edelstein, of George Washington University: "Regulation of Railroad Rates--Columbia, Cornell, and Pennsylvania in the Triangular League," by R. G. Martin...