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American labor leaders personalities and forces in the labor movement

Introduction: craftsmen into wageworkers -- William H. Silvis: America's first "labor's champion" -- Uriah S. Stephens and Terence V. Powderly: plumed Knights of Labor -- Samuel Gompers: "chief" of ...
Washington Examiner

Examiner Editorial: Labor hero John L. Lewis must be spinning in his grave

This isn’t the AFL-CIO labor hero John L. Lewis once knew. And what the heart of Big Labor is becoming won’t be much better. At its quadrennial convention in Los Angeles next month, the Big Labor ...