Help! What would an author mean if they used the simile, “My brand new slippers were as
soft as a newborn kitten’s fur?”

it means the authour is comparing their brand new slippers to a new born kitten's soft fur

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the author is saying that her slippers are super soft, like if you were to pet a newborn kittens fur.

Explanation:

they are basically saying their slippers are incredibl soft.

samuel gompers was an extremely important person in the american labor movement, being him an employee all his life he devoted himself to fight for the rights of his pairs, he believed they all had the right to have better thing and that they all were working for them but the factory workers were greedy, ambitions and socialist people for him who he didn't have a good concept of.

he gave so many speeches and led so many strikes and protest to fight for equality which he considered employers didn't want to accept, so he had an absolutely negative opinion of them.