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  1. Labor federation. A 'labor federation' is a group of unions or labor organizations that are in some sense coordinated. [citation needed] The terminology used to identify such organizations grows out of usage, and has sometimes been imprecise; For example, according to Paul Frederick Brissenden nationals are sometimes named internationals, federations are named unions, etc.

  2. Labor historian Joseph Rayback believed that significant losses for organized labor in the 1890s pointed the way toward either socialism, or industrial unionism in order to maintain organized labor's momentum. Yet Samuel Gompers, leader of the American Federation of Labor, opposed both courses of action.

  3. John Llewellyn Lewis (February 12, 1880 – June 11, 1969) was an American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from 1920 to 1960. A major player in the history of coal mining, he was the driving force behind the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), which ...

  4. AFL-CIO. La Federación Estadounidense del Trabajo y Congreso de Organizaciones Industriales (del inglés American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations ), comúnmente llamada AFL-CIO, es la mayor central obrera de los Estados Unidos y Canadá. Fue formada en 1955 por la fusión de AFL (1886) y CIO (1935).

  5. The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, forerunner of the American Federation of Labor, passed a resolution stating that "8 hours shall constitute a legal day's work from and after May 1, 1886." 1884 (United States) Federal Bureau of Labor established in the U.S. Department of the Interior. 1884 (United States)

  6. t. e. The first Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included the Russian 1917 October Revolution, German Revolution of 1918–1919, and anarchist bombings in the U.S.

  7. The Hawaii Federation of Japanese Labor was a labor union in Hawaii formed in 1921. In the early 1900s, Japanese migrants in Hawaii were the majority of plantation workers in the sugar cane field. These individuals were underpaid and overworked, as well as continuously discriminated against by White people on the Hawaiian Islands.