Samuel Gompers

Samuel Gompers was a labor union leader in the late 1800's who helped to fight for better worker rights.

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• Shortly before his death, Gompers (right) sat down with 1924 independent presidential hopeful, Robert M. La Follette

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  Samuel Gompers, American labor leader

• Gompers poses with American officers for a photograph in front of an Italian villa, 1918

• Samuel Gompers Memorial, 1933 by Robert Ingersoll Aitken, near Eleventh and Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D.C.

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  During the early 1920s, Gompers resided in this Dupont Circle home in Washington, D.C.

• The gravesite of Samuel Gompers in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

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  Time cover, October 1, 1923

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  Samuel Gompers memorial issue of 1950