biography
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| (1870–1919)
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| biography:
| Labour leader, born in Braidwood, Illinois, USA. Having worked in coal mines from the age of 12, he joined the Knights of Labour in 1885. He was a founding member of the United Mine Workers (1890), helped in its first successful national strike (1897), and served as the president (1899–1908), a period in which the union expanded its membership tenfold. He was chairman of the New York State Industrial Commission (1915–19). |
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