Samuel Gompers
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Samuel Gompers [sometimes known as "Samuel L. Gompers," although he had no middle name] (27 January 1850 – 13 December 1924) was an American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.
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- We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.
- "Men of Labor! Be Up and Doing" (editorial), American Federationist (May 1906)