The samuel gompers papers
- The nation's leading trade unionist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Samuel Gompers was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1886.
- The project published two microfilm series of union records, twelve volumes of Gompers' papers, and a cumulative index.
- The Samuel Gompers Papers collects, annotates and makes available primary sources of American labor history.
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Samuel Gompers Papers
The Samuel Gompers Papers project invites you to visit our new and improved website at www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/index.htm.
In the true Gompers' fashion of "more, more, more" it offers more documents, more information, and more opportunities for students and teachers to use primary documents in the classroom.
Highlights include
- Luke Grant's eyewitness accounts of the IWW's founding convention
- correspondence and newspaper coverage of the Knights of Labor' trade union struggle for supremacy
- documents related to the founding of the American Federation of Labor
- contemporary assessments of Gompers' leadership
Along with our time line of American labor history, and our glossary of labor activists and organizations, we have also included finding-aids for researchers in African American, female, and immigrant history that promise to make our microfilm collections more user-friendly.
The Samuel Gompers Papers project is sponsored by the University of Maryland College Park, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the National Endowm
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Samuel Gompers Papers
The Samuel Gompers Papers collects, annotates and makes available primary sources of American labor history.
Founded by Stuart Kaufman in 1974, the project has published two microfilm series of union records and eleven volumes of Samuel Gompers' papers.
The nation’s leading trade unionist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Samuel Gompers was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1886 until he died in 1924. "If there is any truth at all in democracy, if democracy has any real justification," he said, "it is as thoroughly justified in our industrial life as it ever was in our political life."
The Gompers Papers website is a repository of documents, bibliographies, and research related to Samuel Gompers and U.S. labor history.
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Samuel Gompers Papers
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Collection — Container: Consolidated Box P12, Folder: P-416
Identifier: P-416
Scope and Content Note
The collection includes three letters from Samuel Gompers to his wife, written while he was travelling on union business; a letter supporting the German trade union movement; and an autographed card. Also includes a letter from Mr. Schwab in which he comments on Samuel Gompers and his life; there were to be used in a biography written by Mrs. Gompers.
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Language of Materials
The collection is in English.
Access Restrictions
The collection is open to all researchers, except items that may be restricted due to their fragility or privacy.
Use Restrictions
No permission is required to quote, reproduce or otherwise publish manuscript materials found in this collection, as long as the usage is scholarly, educational, and non-commercial. For inquiries about other usage, please contact the Director of Collections and Engagement at mmeyers@ajhs.org.
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