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While Gompers extended his hand, AFL internationals prohibited affiliation of locals that were also connected to the WLU. [113] The AFL chose to make Denver, location of the headquarters of the WFM, a battleground to contest new unions with the WLU, using the Denver Trades Assembly (DTA) as a focal point in the struggle. In October 1901, the ...
Samuel Gompers (né Gumpertz; January 27, 1850 – December 11, 1924) [1] [2] was a British-born American cigar maker, labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894, and from 1895 until his death in 1924.
Gompers opened in 1955 as a junior high school, [4] named after labor union leader Samuel Gompers. During the early 1980s Gompers was designated a math-science magnet school, as part of the school district's effort to integrate its schools in response to a 1977 court order, by attracting white students to predominantly minority schools. [5]
The Duluth Transit Authority (DTA) is the transit agency that provides mass transit service — currently, only buses — in the city of Duluth, Minnesota, United States. The agency also serves nearby Proctor, Minnesota , Rice Lake, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin , as well as the eastern edge of Hermantown, Minnesota .
Gompers later recalled: Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor and founder of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy. "We developed a plan for bringing together in one organization representatives of the American trade union movement and representatives of what were known as radical organizations. Members of this ...
Detroit Arsenal (DTA), formerly Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant (DATP) was the first manufacturing plant ever built for the mass production of tanks in the United States. Established in 1940 under Chrysler , the plant was owned by the U.S. government until 1996.
The Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (DTA) is an Act of the United States Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 30, 2005. [1] Offered as an amendment to a supplemental defense spending bill, it contains provisions relating to treatment of persons in custody of the Department of Defense, and administration of detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including: [2]
Delta Municipal Airport covers 896 acres (363 ha) at an elevation of 4,760 feet (1,451 m).Its single runway, 17/35, is 6,065 by 75 feet (1,849 x 23 m). [1]In the year ending September 22, 2023, the airport had 2,382 aircraft operations, average 46 per week: 96% general aviation and 4% air taxi.