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

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. [clean prose here]

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