Andrew Cameron (1834–1892) was an American

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ist and

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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

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(IWA). Cameron worked as a printer at the ''

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'' 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. Cameron was a supporter of free labor republicanism and opposed socialism. Despite this relatively conservative view, he was a supporter of

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cameron, Andrew 1834 births 1892 deaths Members of the International Workingmen's Association People from Berwick-upon-Tweed English emigrants to the United States Trade unionists from Illinois Activists from Chicago