USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The American Federation of Labor was founded on December 8, 1886 by the Craft unions with Samuel Gompers as the first President. Gompers continued to be the president of the Federation till his death in 1924. It was dissolved in 1955 and was merged with Congress of Industrial Organizations .

Detailed explanation-2: -The Illinois Labor History Society put together this brief biography of Samuel Gompers, founder and president for 38 years of the American Federation of Labor.

Detailed explanation-3: -Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) is the founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Gifted at orating and assembling strikes, Gompers used them as effective weapons to change the degrading conditions of the working men of America.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1886, under the leadership of Samuel Gompers, they organized themselves as the AFL, a loose federation that remained for half a century the sole unifying agency of the American labour movement. In its beginnings, the American Federation of Labor was dedicated to the principles of craft unionism.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1881, Samuel Gompers took the lead in organizing the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States of America and Canada. This organization became the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1886, in Columbus, Ohio.