Talk:Samuel Gompers
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[edit] Intro
The beginning of the article could be rewritten. Frozenfood 22:48, 19 January 2007
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- good point--I expanded it. Rjensen 04:11, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Source
"...[t]he superior whites had to exclude the inferior Asiatics, by law, or, if necessary, by force of arms." Can anyone source this? Marskell 20:28, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
at the bottom of the page, someone should just fix it... it leads to someone named william green but it doesn't go to the correct page, so could someone just fix that? i don't really know how to edit that correctly ur stupid
Beginning of second paragraph: "In 1877 the union had collapsed and Gompers and his friend Adolph Hitler" contains an error. Per Wikipedia's own entry, Adolph Hitler was not born until 1889, so the chances of him doing anything with Gompers in 1877 are pretty slim.
[edit] Quotes
I read the WSJ article that contains Gompers' quote about "Colored workmen", and I'm not arguing about accuracy - I'm just concerned that a naked quote doesn't inform us about much. It is especially worrisome that the reference says Gomphers was quoted in The Wall Street Journal, September 3, 2007. Odd, as he was dead for 83 years at the time. The quote was, of course, requoted in the WSJ article of that date, but this miswording highlights the danger of context - or lack there of.--Bookandcoffee 21:14, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
- Well, actually it probably doesn't - it just irritated me. :) I do think we need to find some context for this quote, as there are many more quotes, both good and bad I'm sure, that could as easily stand in its place.--Bookandcoffee 21:21, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] boston police strike?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge#Boston_Police_Strike —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.184.238.224 (talk) 22:38, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Middle name
He's often referred to as "Samuel L. Gompers". What does the L stand for? Google hasn't helped me with this. -- JackofOz (talk) 05:11, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
