A supporter of trade unionism in Mexico, during the Versailles conference, he was instrumental in the creation of the League of Nations' International Labor Organization.  
A supporter of trade unionism in Mexico, during the Versailles conference, he was instrumental in the creation of the League of Nations' International Labor Organization.  His first job was as a shoemaker's apprentice in London, but he soon changed trades and came to America with his parents in 1863.  As a cigar maker, he was the de facto head of the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Councils, which he galvanized into a major union.  FTP, name this first president of the AFL.
A supporter of trade unionism in Mexico, during the Versailles conference, he was instrumental in the creation of the League of Nations' International Labor Organization.  
Samuel Gompers