Names: JASON DONG, ALZON NORMAN, KENNY CARRASCO, JAVIER MALDONADO, XITLALI VALIENTE
Consider Gompers’ classrooms when answering each of the questions that follows. Also think about how apprentices connect to the questions.
- In Gompers’ Autobiography, what apprenticeship skill did he learn?
Answer: became a labor leader and began to influence American’s history. - Was it a difficult skill? Why or why not?
Answer: Gompers, these years were the high point of his career. Long recognized as a talented administrator, negotiator, organizer, and public speaker within the labor movement, he now joined the ranks of national policy makers, serving as a member of the Advisory Commission of the Council for National Defense (CND) and chairman of its Committee on Labor. - Given the difficulty of the skill, what was he able to do during work?
Answer: The craftsmanship of the cigar maker was shown in his ability to utilize wrappers to the best advantage to shave off the unusable to a hairbreadth, to roll so as to cover holes in the leaf and to use both hands so as to make a perfectly shaped and rolled product. - What does he mean when he says, “mind-freedom”?
Answer: He means that the workers are free to think, talk, listen, or sing during their work - What sort of relationships did he have with his fellow workers?
Answer: - During WWI, Gompers stepped back on his labor demands. What kinds of concessions did he make?
- #1
- #2
- #3
- What important goal did Gompers hope to achieve with these concessions?
Answer: Samuel Gompers sought to build the labor movement into a force powerful enough to transform the economic, social and political status of America’s workers. - What were some of the organizations Gompers presided over?
- #1 American federation of labor
- #2Council for National Defense
- #3Cigar Makers’ International Union
- In the speech at the end of the lesson, Gompers talks about “new relations.” Described what they are.
Answer: Relations not only between nation and nation but between man and man