Samuel Gompers was the leader of the

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Samuel Gompers was the leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), one of the most influential labor organizations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The other choices are not correct: the Molly Maguires were a secret society of Irish miners in Pennsylvania; the Knights of Labor were a competing labor organization in the late 19th century; the Congress of Industrial Organization formed in the 1930s as a rival to the AFL; and the American Railway Union was led by Eugene V. Debs and played a key role in the Pullman Strike of 1894.

Samuel Gompers Was the Leader of the