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Mother Jones - Activist - Biography.com  Aug 29, 2016 ... Mary Harris Jones (aka "Mother Jones") was a union activist. She founded the Social Democratic Party, and helped establish the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Mary Harris "Mother Jones" - Education & Resources - National ...  Mary Harris "Mother Jones", Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-50377. The most famous female labor leader of the nineteenth century, Mary Harris emigrated from...
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Mary Harris Jones - Wikipedia
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Mother Jones (18371930) - AFL-CIO  Mary Harris "Mother" Jones rose to prominence as a fiery orator and fearless ... Mary organized a massive show of support for Eugene Debs, the leader of the ... To attract attention to the cause of abolishing child labor, in 1903, she led a...
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Mary Harris Jones - Wikipedia  Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1837  30 November 1930) was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent labor and community organizer. She helped coordinate major strikes and cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Frances Perkins: Secretary of Labor Under FDR | The New York ...  Mar 27, 2014 ... Frances Perkins meets with Carnegie Steel Workers in 1933 ... time in office, from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman cabinet member in our history. ... in sociology in 1910 and became executive secretary of the New York City ... In her additional role of heading the nation's largest state labor department, she...
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Iron Jawed Angels - Lesson Plans from Movies and Film - Women's ...  The suffragists were applying all of the principles of nonviolent mass action: ... of the 19th Amendment, although the efforts of the National American Women's ... the vote for women, Mrs. Catt and her organization probably deserves more of the .... Ida Wells, a black woman, joining the march; the tableaus; the violence of the...
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Mary Arthur McElroy sister of President Chester A. Arthur. His wife ...  His wife, Ellen died of pneumonia shortly after he was elected president. ... Mary Arthur McElroy was White House hostess for her brother, 21st president Chester ... President Arthur asked his sister Mrs. EcElroy to step in as a hostess for his ..... raised black-gloved fists when the United States national anthem was played...
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The New Face of Unionbusting - David Bacon  Somers was a target of the country's most high-visibility union organizing campaign, Justice ... Justice for Janitors' tactics were heralded as keys to rebuilding union strength ... comes from the many-sided pressure they mobilize on building owners. ... While SEIU Local 1877 mounted pressure from outside the workplace, the...
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Important U.S. Labor Leaders: George Meany - Cross Currents  George Meany began his career in union leadership in 1920, when he became the ... The two federations merged in 1955, forming the AFL-CIO. ... Under his leadership the federation actively pushed Congress to pass major civil rights laws.
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Personality Spotlight;NEWLN:Lech Walesa, Polish Labor Leader ...  Dec 16, 1982 ... ... unemployed electrician to one of the most powerful men in Poland, ... law was declared in December, 1981, expressions of outrage were ... workers he eventually led in the nearly 10-million-member Solidarity ... village of Popowo, had a long history of activism before emerging as the leader of Solidarity.
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Mary Harris Jones - Wikipedia  Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1837  30 November 1930) was an Irish-born American ... In 1903, to protest the lax enforcement of the child labor laws in the .... Jones was ideologically separated from many of the other female activists of the .... Mary Harris Jones died in Silver Spring, Maryland at the age of 93 on 30 November...
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Frances Perkins Center | Her Life: The Woman Behind the New Deal  Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and the first woman to serve as a cabinet ... Frances Perkins was born Fannie Coralie Perkins in Boston in 1880, but her ... Union General Oliver Otis Howard, first head of the Freedmen's Bureau and .... to weed out the incompetence and corruption in the state labor department so...
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History of the Teamsters - Teamsters Local 786  For more than 100 years, the Teamsters Union has helped millions of workers ... Under the leadership of its second President, Daniel Tobin (1907-1952), the ... James R. Hoffa's leadership, membership reached 1.5 million strong in 1957.
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John L. Lewis | American labour leader | Britannica.com  American labour leader who was president of the United Mine Workers of America (192060) and chief founder and first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO;... ... He would remain the UMWA's leader for the next 40 years. Lewis ... Beginning in 193536, Lewis presided over the often-violent struggle to...
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A Brief History: The U.S. Department of Labor | United States ...  Woodrow Wilson's appointee as Secretary of Labor was Scottish-born Congressman ... Frances Perkins (1933-1945), the first woman ever to serve in the Cabinet. ... She survived a politically motivated impeachment attempt over her refusal to ... had long supported, setting minimum wages and maximum work hours for most...
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Congress of Industrial Organizations - Wikipedia  The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), was a federation of unions that organized ... On September 10, 1936, the AFL suspended all 10 CIO unions (two more ... and the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite strike led by the American Workers Party. .... the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, the ILWU joined...
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Mother Jones - Activist - Biography.com  Aug 29, 2016 ... Union activist and progressive firebrand Mother Jones fought for the rights ... Her family left the devastation brought by the Irish Potato Famine ... become a labor activist and was given the nickname Mother Jones. ... Jones died in 1930. ... Labor activist Mother Jones was born Mary Harris in 1830 in County...
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John L Lewis Autograph Union Labor Leader President Mine ... - eBay  ... Union Labor Leader President Mine worker The Labor Baron in Collectibles, ... John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers President plaque located in Lucas, Iowa ... On November 1, 1919, he called the first major coal union strike, as 400,000...
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History of the WCTU - Woman's Christian Temperance Union  It grew out of the "Woman's Crusade" of the winter of 1873-1874. ... They decided to hold a national convention that fall in Cleveland and the WCTU was formed. Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer was elected president; Miss Frances E. Willard, ... The crusade against alcohol was a protest by women, in part, of their lack of civil rights.
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Karen Silkwood - Wikipedia  Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946  November 13, 1974) was an American chemical technician and labor union activist known for raising concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety of workers in a nuclear facility. ... She worked at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site plant near Crescent,...