Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was an influential advocate of labor, and was the first and longest-serving president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). He advocated for trade unionism, economic reform, and political nonpartisanship. Over the course of his leadership at the AFL it grew from an organization of 50,000 members to 3,000,000.
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