The International Typographical Union, eager to establish a national labor union, also widely publicized the conference.
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).
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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.
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In 1886, the Cigar Makers Union leader, Samuel Gompers, was elected AFL president.
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The ITU sought to merge with The Newspaper Guild but terminated negotiations in 1981 after nearly four years of talks.
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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.