WAUSamuelGompersCentennialCommittee4655.xml Guide to the Samuel Gompers Centennial Committee Records Samuel Gompers Centennial Committee Records Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries ©2007 (Last modified: 1/31/2020)
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Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections 4655 (Accession No. 4655-001) Samuel Gompers Centennial Committee Samuel Gompers Centennial Committee records 2 microfilm reels Collection materials are in English. History of Gomper's career as a labor organizer, stills showing living and working conditions and history of the labor movement in US

"Samuel Gompers - Man of Labor" appears to be a chronological history of Gomper's career as a labor organizer and ends with his death in 1924. Many stills show living and working conditions, meetings, picket lines and labor leaders. Sound for filmstrip is missing

"Labor's Challenge, the story of organized labor in the United States" appears to be a chronological history of the labor movement in the United States from the republic's early years, emphasizing the last two decades of the 1800's, the depression and the New Deal and ending with a statement of goals of organized labor for the future. The sound recording is missing. Extensive use of stills.

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Gift of the Washington State Federation of Labor, 3/1/1964.

 Samuel Gompers Centennial Committee--Archives Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington) Labor History Labor Unions Moving Images Photographs