#samuel gompers

[2rabbitart]

[1900scartoons]

A Strange Bed-Fellow, Indeed

September 28, 1908

AFL president Samuel Gompers puts the Democratic Donkey into bed with Labor, who looks alarmed.

The caption reads "Mr. Gompers has some new ideas about politics, but what does Labor think about it?"

Gompers had made a surprise endorsement of Democratic Candidate William Jennings Bryan in the 1908 election, according to the September 24th edition of the New York Times.

From Hennepin County Library

Original available at: https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/Bart/id/6595/rec/2085

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The funeral of Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor and a major figure in American labor history, December 22, 1924. The crowd watches as pallbearers carry the flag-draped coffin down the street.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[green-light-kid]

“oh, you’ve seen how starved he is to be part of a real family. it’s not easy for a boy that young to lose his parents.”

-(voyagers ep. 11 “merry christmas, bogg)

[gregorygalloway]

Samuel Gompers (27 January 1850 – 13 December 1924) 

[albany-park-chicago-blog]

Mallard relaxing at Gompers Park Lagoon. 3.26.2017

[green-light-kid]

[gregorygalloway]

Samuel Gompers (27 January 1850 – 13 December 1924)