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The Federation made some efforts to obtain favorable legislation, but had little success in organizing or chartering new unions. It came out in support of the proposal, traditionally attributed to Peter J. McGuire of the Carpenters Union , for a national Labor Day holiday on the first Monday in September, and threw itself behind the eight hour movement, which sought to limit the workday by either legislation or union organizing.

In 1886 , as the relations between the trade union movement and the Knights Of Labor worsened, McGuire and other union leaders called for a convention to be held at Columbus, Ohio on December 8th. The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions merged with the new organization, known as the American Federation Of Labor , formed at that convention.


FURTHER READING

  • [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=22784998 Commons, John R. ''History of Labour in the United States'' - Vol. 2 1860-1896 (1918)]

  • [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=14119763 Mandel, Bernard. ''Samuel Gompers: A Biography'' (1963)]

  • "History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Volume 1" by Philip Foner ISBN 071780089