Pray for the dead
and fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday October 26, 1918
Washington, District of Columbia – Miss Sadie Gompers Passes Away
From the Duluth Labor World of October 26, 1918:
MISS GOMPERS PASSES AWAY
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Only Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gompers
Dies After Two Days’ Illness.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-Miss Sadie Gompers, only daughter of President Gompers and Mrs. Gompers, died in this city [October 14th] after a two days’ illness with influenza. Interment was private. President Gompers [of the American Federation of Labor] was in Italy with the American labor mission at the time of the tragic occurrence.
Miss Gompers was an accomplished singer, and she was well known to trade unionists because of the many conventions and public meetings she had attended with her father. The high esteem in which she was held was indicated by the telegrams and floral offerings received at the family residence from trade unionists and other friends in every section of the country.
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