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The Journeymen Cigar Makers' International Union of America (CMIU) was a labor union established in 1864 that represented workers in the cigar industry. The CMIU was part of the American Federation of Labor from 1887 until its merger in 1974.
[14] [15] In 1901, the American Cigar Company, purchased Brown Brothers Tobacco for over $469,000 in stock and cash and renamed it "Brown Brothers' Branch, American Cigar Co." At the time, Brown Brothers had an annual capacity of over 40 million cigars, 1,076 employees and was the largest manufacturer of cigars under one roof in the world.
The financial crisis of the 1870s caused major strikes across all industries. Most notable was the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. [6] In her book “Once a Cigar Maker” Patricia Ann Cooper suggests that the cigar makers may have been inspired by this railroad strike [7] Whatever the inspiration was, by October 1877 over 10,000 women and men had left the factories and tenement rooms and were ...
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Gompers was born Samuel Gumpertz on January 27, 1850, in Spitalfields, a working-class area in the East End of London into a Jewish family that originally hailed from Amsterdam. [4] [5] He was the son of Sarah (Root) and Solomon Gumpertz, a cigar maker. [1] [5] [6] At age six, Samuel was sent to the Jewish Free School to receive a basic ...
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