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unión is arousea 10 me iinponance oí ine movement now on foot, foraneight liour work-day. Tlie American Federation of Labor, representing a menibershipof over "00,000 working-men, lias decided at lts coiivention held in St. Louis, in December, 1X88 to innaiigurRte this movement of the working classes of tlie United States on the ti rst day of May, 1890. The convention directed thiit book?, pamphIet8, papers, circulara and otlior printed mittcr tèndlng to edúcate the public ni ' mi npon ibis questioD, sliould be most llbernlly distributed throughout the country. In tliia manner the way for general uloption of the movement wou ld be oponed. Considerable work has already been done by the organizution, but there rematas sorae important business to be done in the near future in order to derive the f uil benefit from the undertaktnjr. Tlie man, whose picture we place above tliis sketch, is Mr. Samuel Gomicr-, who was elccted president of the American Federation of Labor at the recent convention at Coluinbus, Ohio. Mr. (Jcinpers is a native of London, where he was bom of Dutch parenis about forty years ago. He came to this country w lien but thirteen years old. Ever gince bis tenth ycar he has worked at his trade na ciifar maker, and has been a conspicuous member of the International cigar makers union, from lts organization in 1804 and at the time of his election to bis present ofllcp, was its vice-president. He is a man of sound judgment and ot clear percoptions of dtity. Resides, hels peiffct.ly familiar witli the whole labor question, qualltlea wlilcb are demanded by the important position, which he is now holding. He is known to be one of the cleverest leaders in the trades unioiis of this country.