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Labor leader Samuel Gompers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Gompers

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This is at City Hall during hearings of the Walsh Commission on Industrial Relations.

One of at least 20 pictures from the January, 1915 hearings of The Commission on Industrial Relations (Walsh Commission) www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/tags/walshcommi...

Had I been there, I would have been waiting breathlessly for him to wiggle in that chair a little and made that back leg fall off the stand.

On Jan 20, 1915, he was due to give testimony at the Federal Commission on Industrial Relations at "the City Hall" according to the NYT of Jan 20, 1915. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E02E4DF1E3FE633A...

Banker and Corporate Director (and many other things), en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Schiff More on the Walsh Commission, then taking testimony in New York: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Industrial_Relations

Thanks to both of you for providing some good sources. We'll fill in the name and date the next time we update the record.

From www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/bio.htm "Samuel Gompers was president of the American Federation of Labor for almost forty years, between 1886 and 1924, and the nation's leading trade unionist and labor spokesman. " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Gompers

Testified 1/22/15 at New York's City Hall before the Walsh Commission. His testimony: www.archive.org/stream/industrialrelati08unitrich#page/76...