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About Dolores Huerta - Farm Worker Organizer - Labor Leader
Biography of Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers, labor leader and organizer, social activist.
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blhuerta.htm
Mother Jones
An illlustrated story of Mother Jones, from the Illinois Labor History Society ... A short article about Jones written by Socialist leader, Eugene V. Debs. ...
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/motherjones/p/mother_jones.htm
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Quotes
... IWW (Wobblie) organizer and, later, an American Communist Party activist and leader. ... What is a labor victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. ...
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/quotes/a/e_g_flynn.htm
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Biography
From 1927 to 1930 Flynn chaired the International Labor Defense. ... When World War I started, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and other IWW leaders opposed the war. ...
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/elizabethgurleyflynn/a/rebel_girl.ht
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Rose Schneiderman Quotes
To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. ... Maud (Swartz) and I are still at it in the world of labor where struggle goes on ...
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/quotes/a/r_schneiderman.htm
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the Rebel Girl of Joe Hill song fame, was a socialist, feminist, and labor organizer who became a Communist Party activist.
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/worklaborunions/p/rebel_girl.htm
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Biography
elizabeth gurley flynn · radical women · socialists · labor leaders · iww · (Continued from Page 1) ...continued. During World War II, Elizabeth Gurley ...
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htm
Autobiography of Mother Jones - Chapter XXVII - Progress in Spite ...
They differed greatly from the modern labor leader. ... Many of our modern leaders of labor have wandered far from the thorny path of these early crusaders. ...
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/mj/bl_mj27.htm
Women and Labor Unions - Trade Union Organizers - Strikes
Women's trade unions, women in unions, the impact of unions on women and women on unions, and key women labor leaders.
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/worklaborunions/Women_and_Labor_Unio
ns_Trade_Union_Organizers_Strikes.htm
Autobiography of Mother Jones - Chapter XV - Moyer, Haywood and ...
Back of the arrest of the labor leaders was the labor struggle itself. Much of the labor war in Idaho had centered about the Coeur d'Alene district, ...
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/mj/bl_mj15.htm
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