John Brown Lennon 400 local unions. Lennon was elected treasurer of the American Federation of Labor in 1890. He soon became a close associate, and friend, to AFL president Samuel Gompers. In 1894, when Gompers lost the AFL presidency for a year to socialist labor leader John McBride, he worked out of Lennon's New York City office. Both Lennon and Gompers held the conservative AFL labor philosophy of "pure and simple unionism" against socialist and anarchist viewpoints that put forward a larger political project of working-class emancipation through the overthrow of capitalism. In 1894, the Journeyman Tailors Union under Lennon's leadership faced a
The Killing of John Lennon The Killing of John Lennon The Killing of John Lennon is a 2006 British biographical drama film about Mark David Chapman's plot to kill musician John Lennon. The film was written and directed by Andrew Piddington and stars Jonas Ball, Robert C. Kirk and Thomas A. McMahon. British-produced, it was not released in the United States until 2008 and received much less attention than the similarly themed American-produced independent film "Chapter 27" produced in 2007. While "Chapter 27" deals almost wholly with the actions of Mark Chapman during the three days before his murder of Lennon, this film chronicles his