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March 1982

The AFL and a national BLS: labor’s role is crystallized

Joseph P. Goldberg, William T. Moye

From the labor federation's first convention in 1881 to the establishment of the Labor Department in 1913, relations between the union movement and the BLS often were influenced by the needs of the times and by the personalities of Samuel Gompers, and Commissioners Carroll Wright and Charles Neill.

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