Adolph Strasser

He shifted all his energy to the trade union movement when he came to understand the unsoundness and impracticability of Socialist Party policy and philosophy or, as Strasser called it, 'sophistry.'

[3] Strasser soon joined forces with the CMIU, editing the monthly magazine established by that union in 1875, the Cigar Makers' Official Journal.

[5] In 1876 and 1877 Strasser was instrumental in helping to establish a central body bringing together New York City's various local trade unions.

[2] In 1886 Strasser was one of five signatories to a call for a convention in Columbus, Ohio, which was to formally establish the American Federation of Labor (AF of L).

[2] Gompers and Strasser were outspoken opponents of the tenement system of production, in which raw materials were provided to workers for manufacture at home.

[5] Under their leadership the CMIU attempted to outlaw the practice of home work outright rather than making any effort to organize cigar workers engaged in that form of production.

[3] He also was active in the American Federation of Labor as a lecturer, lobbyist, and arbitrator of jurisdictional disputes between competing craft unions.

[2] In 1930 Strasser moved to Daytona Beach, located on the Atlantic coast of the state of Florida, where he lived out the last decade of his life.