Gompers
Americannoun
noun
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In December 1886, Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor, organizing only skilled workers and focusing on “pure and simple” unionism that rejected state intervention.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
A mayoral SUV got a warning in May 2021 for driving 39 mph past Samuel Gompers Park.
From Washington Times • Jul. 28, 2022
Samuel Gompers, the first president of the American Federation of Labor and an advocate of making Labor Day a national celebration, lifted up freedom in a commentary on the holiday in 1910.
From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2021
Sometimes, in the “total care” room at Gompers Habilitation Center in west Phoenix, she plays music.
From The Guardian • Feb. 3, 2019
To workers, Eugene Debs and Samuel Gompers came increasingly to seem like saviors, Chicago’s merchant princes like devils.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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