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5 unusual facts about International Typographical Union


Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions

The International Typographical Union, eager to establish a national labor union, also widely publicized the conference.

International Typographical Union

The ITU had a unique system of factional opposition in its democratic elections, documented by Seymour Martin Lipset in his co-authored book Union Democracy: The Internal Politics of the International Typographical Union (1957).

Newspaper publishers called for aid from the authors of the law, U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft (R - Ohio) and Congressman Fred A. Hartley, Jr. (R - New Jersey) The ITU and Woodruff Randolph won in Chicago.

In 1886, the Cigar Makers Union leader, Samuel Gompers, was elected AFL president.

The ITU sought to merge with The Newspaper Guild but terminated negotiations in 1981 after nearly four years of talks.


Bert Powers

He became a printer after a 1937 accident and moved to New York City in 1946, where he eventually rose to become vice president of the New York local of the International Typographical Union in 1953.


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