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A. F. of L. Delegates.A. F. of L. Delegates.

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Humanities
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American Social History Project/Center for History and New Media
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Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
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Secondary, Post-secondary
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Faced with stiff business opposition, a conservative political climate, hostile courts, and declining membership, leaders of the American Federeration of Labor (AFL) grew increasingly cautious during the 1920s. Labor radicals viewed AFL leaders as overpaid, self-interested functionaries uninterested in organizing unorganized workers into unions. A cartoon by William Gropper published in the Communist Yiddish newspaper Freiheit (and reprinted in English in the New Masses ) caricatures delegates to a 1926 AFL convention in Atlantic City. Well

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Copyright 1998-2005 American Social History Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.

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