Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...counteract the power of Big Business. His American Federation of Labor was growing. At the turn of the century, men were beginning to ask Gompers what his goal was. Where would he stop? Gompers had a prophetic answer which he was soon to deliver in a speech at Portland, Ore.: "We want more, we demand more, and when we get that more, we shall insist upon again more and more and even more, until we get the full fruition of our labor...