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
Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon (DVD) "Stand By Me" has new footage inserted. The originals can be found on the 1992 VHS compilation "The John Lennon Video Collection," which as of this writing has not been re-released. All track notes taken from the DVD booklet. Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon (DVD) Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon was released on DVD in November 2003 as a series of remastered, remixed, and new videos with Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound audio mixes. The DVD featured never-before-seen footage from the Lennon/Ono archive, rare newsreel and private footage, 15 new and newly remastered music