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[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves...
Due to the hectic hours of work men and women had no time for themselves, they got up early in the morning, go to work, return home tired and go to sleep repeating this everyday. Gompers goal when writing "What does the working man want ?" was to establish an eight-hour workday, so that the workers could enjoy some time for themselves.
Samuel Gompers was one of the USA's most early labor reformer.
Gompers established the American Federation of Labor in a period in which the public was hostile toward labors for they were suspicious of radicalism.
Gompers fought to demonstrate that workers wanted what everyone else had: a better life, good pay, good working conditions and time for themselves