Reposted by Oklahoma City DSA
Cleveland, Ohio, was a hotbed of socialist labor organizing in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
It was the launching pad for a near-victorious effort to replace Samuel Gompers as head of the American Federation of Labor.
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The Socialist Labor Unionists Who Took On Samuel Gompers
Though little remembered now, at the turn of the 20th century Cleveland’s socialists heroically fought Samuel Gompers for leadership of the American Federation of Labor — putting forward a revolutionary alternative to Gompers’s conservative unionism.
