Tag: american federation of labor

This Day in Labor History: December 17, 1894

By Erik Loomis

On December 17, 2020

On December 17, 1894, the American Federation of Labor annual convention begins in Denver. During the convention, AFL founding leader Samuel Gompers lost his reelection bid to John McBride due to the rise of Populism in the labor movement. While this interregnum in Gompers’ domination of the AFL for its four decades would not last […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 115

By Erik Loomis

On July 28, 2017

This is the grave of Adolph Strasser. Born in 1843 or 1844 in what is today Hungary, Strasser emigrated to the United States in 1871 or 1872. He settled in New York and took up cigar making. He very q

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 12

By Erik Loomis

On January 22, 2016

Time for the next installment in the internet’s least important historical series. This is the grave of Samuel Gompers. Gompers, an English immigrant from a Jewish background, immigrated to the

This Day in Labor History: November 30, 1932

By Erik Loomis

In General

On November 30, 2015

On November 30, 1932, the American Federation of Labor endorsed federal unemployment insurance. This was a remarkable shift for the AFL, which had long opposed any sort of government programs for workers, preferring to rely on voluntarism and negotiation to force employers to concede worker rights instead of a government which it felt it had […]

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