Andrew Cameron (1834–1892) was an American trade unionist and newspaper editor who founded the National Labor Union alongside William H. Sylvis. He represented the National Labor Union as a delegate to the Basle Congress (1869) of the International Workingmen's Association (IWA).[1]

Cameron worked as a printer at the Chicago Times in 1860. When the paper's publisher, William F. Storey, dismissed his employees to hire cheaper labor, Cameron led a strike, which led to the striking workers forming their own labor newspaper, the Workingman's Advocate. Cameron became editor of this paper.[2]

Cameron was a supporter of free labor republicanism and opposed socialism. Despite this relatively conservative view, he was a supporter of industrial unionism.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Arnesen, Eric (2007). Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-class History. Taylor & Francis. pp. 205–. ISBN 9780415968263. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  2. ↑ Green, James (2007). Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America. New York: Pantheon Books. p. 21. ISBN 978-1400033225.
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