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

Suppose the board decides to poll a great industrial plant, and an old, established craft union proves to be a minority?

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