It wasn't until after I took this photo from the passenger seat in the car that I realized there was a person living there.
As we drove off I felt sad that there are so many people living on the street.
Samuel Gompers was an English-born, American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.
Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894 and from 1895 until his death in 1924.
He promoted harmony among the different craft unions that comprised the AFL, trying to minimize jurisdictional battles.
He promoted thorough organization and collective bargaining to secure shorter hours and higher wages, the first essential steps, he believed, to emancipating labor.