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    <title>American Federation of Labor records, 1883-1925</title>
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  <abstract>Letterpress books containing correspondence of Samuel Gompers, and William Green, presidents of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and other officials including James Duncan, Gabriel Edmonston, Frank K. Foster, and John McBride.  Includes material pertaining to the formation of local unions, charters, bylaws, conduct of meetings, ethics, publicity, fund raising, arbitration, and boycotts.  Subjects include the political principles of the AFL, communism, socialism, the anthracite coal strikes of 1897 and 1902, American Railway Union, International Association of Machinists, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, United Mine Workers of America, and The American Federationist, magazine of the AFL.  Correspondents include Susan B. Anthony, Grover Cleveland, William Hugh Johnston, John L. Lewis, L.J. McGruder, P.J. McGuire, John Mitchell, John Morrison, Herman Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Daniel Joseph Tobin, Henry White, and Woodrow Wilson.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition of volumes 1-355 (volumes 251, 310, &amp; 313 not received by the Library of Congress) available, no. 13,745.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition of volumes. 356-357 available, no. 16,178.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1967-1974.</note>
  <note>Labor organization.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011070">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011070</note>
  <note>Each volume contains an index of correspondents.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1820-1906</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Cleveland, Grover</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1908</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Duncan, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1928</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Edmonston, Gabriel</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Foster, Frank K. (Frank Keyes,)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1854-1909</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gompers, Samuel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1850-1924</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Green, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1870-1952</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Johnston, William Hugh</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1937</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1969</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McBride, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1854-1917</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McGruder, L. J</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McGuire, P. J. (Peter James)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1852-1906</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mitchell, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1870-1919</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Esq</namePart>
      <namePart>Morrison, John</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Robinson, Herman</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roosevelt, Theodore</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1919</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Tobin, Daniel Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1875-1955</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>White, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wilson, Woodrow</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1924</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>American Railway Union.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>International Association of Machinists.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>International Brotherhood of Teamsters.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United Mine Workers of America.</namePart>
    </name>
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      <title>American federationist</title>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Anthracite coal industry</topic>
    <geographic>Pennsylvania</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Anthracite Coal Strike, Pa., 1897</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Anthracite Coal Strike, Pa., 1902</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Arbitration, Industrial</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Boycotts</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Charters</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Coal mines and mining</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Communism</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Fund raising</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Labor disputes</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Labor union meetings</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Planning</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Labor unions</topic>
    <topic>Moral and ethical aspects</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Labor unions</topic>
    <topic>Organizing</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Labor unions</topic>
    <topic>Public relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Labor unions</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>By-laws</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Professional ethics</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Publicity</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Socialism</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Strikes and lockouts</topic>
    <topic>Coal mining</topic>
    <geographic>Pennsylvania</geographic>
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