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Samuel Gompers was the first president of The American Federation of Labor. Coming from a working class background, Gompers could relate to the needs and beliefs of the working man. His goals were to establish solidarity, since union power rests in numbers, emancipation from the repressed, overworked and underpaid slave-like existence, He also wanted to instill in workers a form of self reliance which would eventually enable them to enact ways to bring about their goals without government intervention. Finally, he stressed the need for political independence and warned unions not to be considered aligned with one political party over the other.

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