Archive for Samuel Gompers
The Voluntary Basis of Trade Unionism
From final presidential address to AFL Convention, El Paso, Texas, 1924. Guided by voluntary principles our Federation has grown from a weakling into the strongest, best organized labor movement of all the world. So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we [...]
1Mar1956 | Samuel Gompers | 0 comments | ContinuedLegislated Security Is Bondage
Excerpts from an address, December 5, 1916, The “grand old man” of labor—president of the AFL, 1886-1924—warned his union members to look behind the humanitarian slogans used by the advocates of government-guaranteed security There has never yet come down from any government any substantial improvement in the conditions of the masses of the people, unless [...]
1Sep1955 | Samuel Gompers | 0 comments | Continued-
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