craft union

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Although Debs established a tenuous relationship with Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor, some within the Socialist Party favored a more radical political stance than Gompers's craft union structure.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

All the carpenters belonged to one craft union.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Prime reason for the Labor split was John Lewis' threatened industrial-union encroachment on A. F. of L.'s jealously guarded craft union preserves.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Executive Council declares in most positive terms that the industrial versus craft union dispute is in no way involved in its official decision.

From Time Magazine Archive

The craft union officials also sought the help of the president of the United States.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler