Samuel Sam Gompers[1] (January 27, 1850 â December 13, 1924) was an English-born, American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894 and from 1895 until his death in 1924.
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Ed Masry, the flamboyant, crusading environmental lawyer portrayed by actor Albert Finney in the movie Erin Brockovich, which was based on Masry's landmark $333-million settlement against Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for groundwater contamination in California's high desert, has died. He was 73.D MASRY The fight by the attorney and assistant Erin Brockovich, left, over Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s contamination of groundwater in Hinkley, Calif., was portrayed in an Oscar-winning movie.