AFL Office of the President, Samuel Gompers' letterbooks

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AFL Office of the President, Samuel Gompers' letterbooks

1907-1924

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/42494

This collection comprises five volumes of Samuel Gompers' outgoing correspondence. As commissioner and chairman of the committee on Labor of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense (3 volumes) and as president of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy (1 volume); miscellaneous correspondence, many of which is marked confidential, includes Executive Council members (1 volume).

1.875 Linear Feet

eng, Latn

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 11669390

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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