Samuel Gompers

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 06, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Jan 23, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Dec 09, 2023
	Add new Web site: AFL-CIO - Samuel Gompers.	Gloria Lotha	May 05, 2021
	Media added.	Michael Ray	Sep 25, 2019
	Corrected display issue.	Jeff Wallenfeldt	Jan 25, 2018
	Add new Web site: JewishEncyclopedia.com - Biography of Samuel Gompers.	Grace Young	Jul 01, 2013
	Add new Web site: Illinois Labor History Society - Biography of Samuel Gompers.	Grace Young	Jul 01, 2013
	Add new Web site: Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University - Biography of Samuel Gompers.	Grace Young	Jul 01, 2013
	Add new Web site: Ohio History Central - Biography of Samuel Gompers.	Grace Young	Jul 01, 2013
	Add new Web site: First World War.com - Biography of Samuel Gompers.	Grace Young	Jul 01, 2013
	Media added.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Dec 29, 2007
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 25, 2001
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998