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Jimmy Hoffa and Samuel Gompers were two very important labor union leaders in America. Jimmy Hoffa was the president of the International Brotherhood (IBT) of Teamsters from 1957 to 1971. Samuel Gompers was the first president of the American Federation of Labor from 1886 to 1924. ...
Samuel Gompers started what is known as the American Federation of Labor while Hoffa was elected the international president of the Teamsters Union. Both had good intentions when they started but the difference between the two is that Gompers stayed with those intentions while Hoffa got caught up in the mob. Gompers really got the labor union movement started in America. ... In stark contrast, Jimmy Hoffa’s Teamsters Union was very well developed when he stepped in with a treasury of about 100 million dollars. Gompers used his power to help many people who had no power to fight against unfair employers. Hoffa became entangled in the mafia and used the Central States Pension Fund to help them. ... They chose Hoffa and he used the Central States Pension Fund to loan money to wise guys and to other people to basically build the city of Las Vegas. ... Gompers promoted labor unions and four years after he started the AFL the membership had grown to 250,00 and in another two years it had grown to over one million.
Approximate Word count = 993
Approximate Pages = 4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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