Letterpress Copybooks of Samuel Gompers and William Green, Presidents on Microfilm
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Scope and Contents
Correspondence relating to the establishment of the Federation and Gompers early involvement with American and international socialism and his eventual disenchantment with the American movement. Documentation of particular strikes to be found in the separate collection: AFL Records - Pt. 1 & 2. Strikes and Agreement Files, 1893-1953
Dates
- 1908-1925
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was the first federation of labor unions in the United States. It was founded in May of 1886 in Columbus, Ohio. Samuel Gompers of the Cigar Makers' International Union was elected president every year except one up until he passed away in 1924. The AFL was the largest union grouping in the United States in the first half of the 20th Century, even after the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was formed.
In 1955 the AFL merged with the CIO (longtime rival), to form the AFL-CIO, a federation of unions which remains today.
Extent
38.11 cubic feet
Abstract
Microfilm of letterpress copybooks of AFL presidents Samuel Gompers and William Green.
Quantity:
343 microfilm reels
Forms of Material:
Records (documents), microfilm.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, May 15, 2014
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, March 12, 2019
- Title
- Letterpress Copybooks of Samuel Gompers and William Green, Presidents on Microfilm
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- March 12, 2019
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853