The issue was sufficiently potent in 1935 to spark secession from the American Federation of Labor of its industrial union members.

That breach was healed 20 years later by merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

* 1838 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.

* 1936 – The United Auto Workers ( UAW ) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.

In USA in July 1943, as a result of the American Federation of Musicians boycott of US recording studios, the a cappella vocal group The Song Spinners had a best-seller with " Comin ' In On A Wing And A Prayer ".

The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as " the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form.

* Federation of American Scientists page

For example, the rules of tournament bridge are governed by the World Bridge Federation, and by local bodies in various countries such as the American Contract Bridge League in the U. S., and the English Bridge Union in England.

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.

* Camp David from the Federation of American Scientists

* An introduction to cruise missilesFrom the website of the Federation of American Scientists ( FAS )

The largest cheddar ever produced was created in Oregon by the Federation of American Cheese-makers in 1989.

* Sandra Feldman ( B. A 1960 ), President, American Federation of Teachers

William Green, head of the American Federation of Labor, was taken to the first camp to demonstrate that there would be no job training involved beyond simple manual labor.

* 1955 – The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO.

* Harry Goode Memorial Award, American Federation of Information Processing Societies ( 1989 )

Soon, social and economic differences between Honduras and its regional neighbors exacerbated harsh partisan strife among Central American leaders and brought the collapse of the Federation from 1838 to 1839.

Honduras broke away from the Central American Federation in October 1838 and became independent and sovereign state.

The CTH, the nation's largest trade confederation, was formed in 1964 by the nation's largest peasant organization, the National Association of Honduran Peasants ( Asociación Nacional de Campesinos de Honduras — Anach ), and by Honduran unions affiliated with the Inter-American Regional Organization of Workers ( Organización Regional Interamericana de Trabajadores — ORIT ), a hemispheric labor organization with close ties to the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations ( AFL-CIO ).

The federation had external ties with the World Federation of Trade Unions ( WFTU ), the Permanent Congress for Latin American Workers Trade Union Unity ( Congreso Permanente de Unidad Sindical de Trabajadores de América Latina — CPUSTAL ), and the Central American Committee of Trade Union Unity ( Comité de Unidad Sindical de Centroamérica — CUSCA ).

He developed a " mutualist " theory of unions and as such was active within the Knights of Labor and later promoted anti-political strategies in the American Federation of Labor.

And in December 1918, the American Federation of Labor ( AFL ) issued its own distinctively apolitical report, which called for the achievement of numerous incremental improvements via the collective bargaining process.

Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

Cabinet members of American presidents include Attorney General Amos T. Akerman, Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, and the current Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner.

He also ran as the nominee of the American Labor Party, a union-dominated anti-Tammany left-wing group that supported Franklin D. Roosevelt for president beginning in 1936.

The CTH received support from foreign labor organizations, including ORIT, the American Institute for Free Labor Development ( AIFLD ), and Germany's Friedrich Ebert Foundation and was an affiliate of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions ( ICFTU ).

* 1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.

* 1947 – Alexis Herman, American politician, 23rd United States Secretary of Labor

The Knights of Labor ( K of L ) ( officially " Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor ") was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s.

They lost many craft unionists that year to the rival Railroad brotherhoods and the new American Federation of Labor, which had more conservative reputations.

" Formal Organization and the Fate of Social Movements: Craft Association and Class Alliance in the Knights of Labor ," American Sociological Review Vol.

" The New Labor History and the Powers of Historical Pessimism: Consensus, Hegemony, and the Case of the Knights of Labor ," Journal of American History Vol.

* Fink, Leon / Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics.

" Labor's True Woman: Domesticity and Equal Rights in the Knights of Labor ," Journal of American History Vol.

The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century.

* Rufus Hatch, " The Labor Crisis ," North American Review, vol.

The Falcons joined the NFL in 1965 as an expansion team, after the NFL offered then-owner Rankin Smith a franchise to keep him from joining the rival American Football League ( AFL ).

The American Football League ( AFL ) was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League ( NFL ) merged with it.

During its final two years of existence, the AFL teams won upset victories over the NFL teams in Super Bowl III and IV, the former New York Jets victory was considered one of the biggest upsets in American sports history.

When the merger took place, all ten AFL franchises became part of the merged league's new American Football Conference ( AFC ), with three teams from the original 16-team NFL ( the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and Baltimore Colts ) joining them.

The Bengals were founded in as a member of the American Football League ( AFL ) by former Cleveland Browns head coach Paul Brown.

Due to the impending merger of the American Football League and the National Football League, which was due to take full effect in the season, Brown agreed to join the AFL as its tenth and final franchise.

Brown was not a supporter of the rival American Football League, stating that " I didn't pay ten million dollars to be in the AFL.

The two-point conversion was not implemented in the NFL until 1994, but it had been previously used in the old American Football League ( AFL ) before it merged with the NFL in 1970.

Rosenbloom of the Colts, Art Modell of the Browns, and Art Rooney of the Pittsburgh Steelers agreed to have their teams join the ten AFL teams in the American Football Conference as part of the AFL-NFL merger in 1970.

The Vikings have won one NFL championship, in 1969, prior to the league's merger with the American Football League ( AFL ).

However, a new professional team in the area did not surface again until August 1959, when Minneapolis businessmen Bill Boyer, H. P. Skoglund, and Max Winter were awarded a franchise in the new American Football League ( AFL ).

An original member of the American Football League ( AFL ), the Patriots joined the NFL in the 1970 merger of those leagues.

On November 16, 1959, Boston business executive Billy Sullivan was awarded the eighth and final franchise of the developing American Football League ( AFL ).

The team was founded in 1959 as the Titans of New York, an original member of the American Football League ; later, the franchise joined the NFL in the AFL – NFL merger.

The heavy underdog American Football League ( AFL ) champion New York Jets defeated the National Football League ( NFL ) champion Baltimore Colts by a score of 16 – 7.

Eventually, three NFL teams agreed to move to join the AFL franchises in what became the American Football Conference.

The National Football League ( NFL ) champion Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League ( AFL ) champion Kansas City Chiefs by the score of 35 – 10.

The National Football League ( NFL ) champion Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League ( AFL ) champion Oakland Raiders by the score of 33 – 14.

The American Football League ( AFL ) champion Kansas City Chiefs defeated the National Football League ( NFL ) champion Minnesota Vikings by the score of 23-7.

From 1960 to 1996, the team was known as the Houston Oilers, an original charter member of the American Football League ( AFL ).

They would always wear the " Titans Blue " jersey in their divisional game against the Houston Texans and for other selected home games which came mostly against a team from the old AFL ( American Football League ).

The IWW was founded in Chicago in June 1905 at a convention of two hundred socialists, anarchists, and radical trade unionists from all over the United States ( mainly the Western Federation of Miners ) who were opposed to the policies of the American Federation of Labor ( AFL ).