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What was the first important national labor union in the United States; it aimed to unite all workers, skilled and unskilled; was destroyed by the negative publicity that followed the Haymarket square riot

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created the labor union called the American Federation of Labor (AFL) He provided a stable and unified union for skilled workers.
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