Labor Leaders
Labor leaders often rose from the ranks to secure for fellow workers a living wage, safer working conditions, shorter hours, and balance the scales of economic justice through direct action as well as state and federal legislation.
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Samuel Gompers, 1850-1924
Eugene Debs, 1855-1926
Mary Harris Jones, 1837-1930
A. Philip Randolph, 1889-1979
Emma Tenayuca, 1916-1999