{"id":2170,"date":"2012-09-04T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/04\/in-honor-of-labor-day-select-material-pertaining\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:48:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:48:53","slug":"in-honor-of-labor-day-select-material-pertaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/04\/in-honor-of-labor-day-select-material-pertaining\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2170 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/04\/in-honor-of-labor-day-select-material-pertaining\/attachment\/2171\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_m9u85uDDCm1r3qmd1o1_540-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/04\/in-honor-of-labor-day-select-material-pertaining\/attachment\/2172\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_m9u85uDDCm1r3qmd1o2_540-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/04\/in-honor-of-labor-day-select-material-pertaining\/attachment\/2173\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_m9u85uDDCm1r3qmd1o3_540-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>In honor of Labor Day: select material pertaining to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samuel_Gompers\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Gompers<\/a> in the partner collections<\/strong><br \/>Compiled by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., <em>Senior Reference Librarian &#8211; Collections, Center for Jewish History<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that organized labor as it exists in the late twentieth century is largely the product of the A[merican]F[ederation] of L[abor] and its leaders obscures the federation\u2019s recent and inauspicious beginnings. What became the keystone of the modern American labor movement emerged from a tiny conclave of skilled tradesmen who met in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886 and founded the American Federation of Labor.\u201d [<a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000099353%20&amp;format=999%2520%20p.%201-2\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Samuel Gompers and organized labor in America<\/em>, 1978<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Gompers was the first president of the American Federation of Labor. He was instrumental in the founding of the organization and its early history. In addition to being editor of the Federation publication until his death and making great strides in the union movement he played a \u201cprominent role in winning strong support from American trade unions for President Woodrow Wilson\u2019s War policies in 1917 and 1918.\u201d (<em>Encyclopaedia Judaica<\/em> 1st Ed.)<\/p>\n<p>In addition to holding a reprinted copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000099347%20&amp;format=999%2520\" target=\"_blank\">Gompers papers from various archives<\/a>, the AJHS holds the <a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000126875%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Gompers collection, 1904-1932, P-416<\/a>. The collection contains three letters to from Gompers to his wife on personal matters written while traveling on union business in 1922 and 1923. There is also a letter regarding support of the German trade union movement from 1923 among other documents. <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000126179%20%20&amp;format=999%2520\" target=\"_blank\">Bernard Baruch papers, P-200<\/a>, there is a 1932 a letter to Mrs. Samuel Gompers regarding her husband. Adolph J. Sabath who served as an Illinois Representative in Congress from 1907 until his death in 1952 also has a collection at AJHS, <a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000320149%20%20&amp;format=999%2520\" target=\"_blank\">P-769<\/a>, which contains a tribute to Samuel Gompers. <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>A YIVO archival collection for editor of <em>The Day<\/em>, Socialist leader, co-founder and president of the Workmen\u2019s Circle, William Edlin, <a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000133818%20%20&amp;format=999%2520\" target=\"_blank\">RG 251<\/a>, has correspondence with Gompers.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Interestingly there are also letters of Rosa Gomperz from Budapest, writing to her nephew about the visit of the prominent American labor leader, her cousin Samuel Gompers, in a LBI collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000410686%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Rosa Gomperz Correspondence, AR 11890<\/a>.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>There are also numerous books from as early as 1894 in the collections. The date range of publications highlights intellectual interest in the luminary.\u00a0 <br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000113351%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Striking for life: labor\u2019s side of the labor question: the right of the workingman to a fair living, 1894<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000105518%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Schemes to &ldquo;distribute&rdquo; immigrants :\u00a0\u00a0 article from American Federationist, July, 1911, relating to the methods of state and philanthropic bureaus in the schemes to &ldquo;distribute&rdquo; immigrants in the United States, 1913 <\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000072462%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924. Seventy years of life and labor: an autobiography, 1925 <\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000124111%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">A Spanish translation: Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924. Setenta a~nos de vida y trabajo :\u00a0\u00a0 autobiograf\u00eda, 1956 <\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000123213%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">The Gompers-Allen debate on the Kansas Industrial Court, 1934<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000316926%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">The giant wakes: a novel about Samuel Gompers, 1950<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000316616%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Gompers, American statesman, 1957<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000105692%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Gompers: a biography. \/ With an introduction.: Samuel Gompers, labor statesman or labor faker? 1963<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000105693%20&amp;format=999%2520\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Gompers: labor&rsquo;s pioneer, 1964 <\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000120449%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">The social ideas of Samuel Gompers, 1966<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000105694%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Gompers, 1967<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000124801%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Gompers, communism, and the Pan American Federation of Labor, 1967<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000125484%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">The Jefferson Borden pirates and Samuel Gompers: aftermath of a mutiny, 1967<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000123233%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Gompers and the Mexican Labor Movement, 1968<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000105700%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">The struggle for labor loyalty :\u00a0\u00a0 Gompers, the A.F. of L., and the pacifists, 1917-1920, 1968<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000120683%20&amp;format=999%2520\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Gompers to Frederick Engels :\u00a0\u00a0 an excerpt from the 1890 S.L.P.-A.F.L. debate, 1970 <\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000030354%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Gompers: leader of American labor, 1971<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000099338%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Labor and socialism in America: the Gompers era, 1972<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000105691%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Gompers and the origins of the American Federation of Labor, 1848-1896, 1973<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000099380%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Gompers in Canada: a study in American continentalism before the First World War, 1974<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000120408%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Gompers, labor, and the Mexican-American crisis of 1916: the Carrizal incident \/\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New York, 1976<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000096286%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Five who led. New York : Jewish Labor Committee, 1977<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also found an article from The Maryland historian interesting: <a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000123406%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Kaufman, Stuart Bruce, &ldquo;The Samuel Gompers papers as literature: toward a stream-of-consciousness history, 1977&rdquo;<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000099353%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Gompers and organized labor in America, 1978<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000105679%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">American Federation of Labor records: the Samuel Gompers era : guide to a joint microfilm publication, 1981<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000125318%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Conflict of ideals: Samuel Gompers v. &ldquo;Uncle Joe&rdquo; Cannon, 1981<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000105688%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Seventy years of life and labor:\u00a0 an autobiography, 1984<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000099347%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">The Samuel Gompers papers 1986 \u2013 reproductions of his papers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000098576%20&amp;format=999%2520%20\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Gompers: a selected list of references about the man and his times : compiled to mark the centenary of his selection as first president of the American Federation of Labor, 1986 <\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/opac.cjh.org\/F?func=direct-doc-set&amp;doc_number=000353314%20&amp;format=999%2520\" target=\"_blank\">The builders: Jews and the growth of, 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To conduct your own exploration of the collections, <a href=\"http:\/\/search.cjh.org\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Above photographs courtesy of American Jewish Historical Society:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ndash; <em>Men working in clothing factory, circa 1900<\/em><br \/>&ndash; <em>Avital Sharansky speaking outside the International Union of Electronic Electrical, Technical, Salaried and Machine Workers, AFC-CIO building<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Labor Day: select material pertaining to Samuel Gompers in the partner collectionsCompiled by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian &#8211; Collections, Center for Jewish History \u201cThe fact that organized labor as it exists in the late twentieth century is largely the product of the A[merican]F[ederation] of L[abor] and its leaders obscures the federation\u2019s recent and inauspicious beginnings. 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