Was Born in Buffalo, NY, and Moved to Boston in 1868, Where He Worked
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1 Abrahams, Henry (1855-1923), was born in Buffalo, N.Y., and moved to Boston in 1868, where he worked for a dry-goods merchant. At eighteen he became a cigarmaker, and in 1879 he served as secretary of Cigar Makers' International Union of America 70 of Cambridgeport, Mass. He later served as secretary of Cigar Makers' local 97 of Boston (1885, 1892-1923). In 1878 he helped found the Boston Workingmen's Central Union (later renamed the Boston Central Trades and Labor Union), and he served as its secretary from 1901 until his death. He served as a delegate from District Assembly 30 to the KOL General Assembly in 1886 and was president of the Massachusetts State Branch of the AFL from 1889 to 1890. Adams, Emmet L. (1870?-1933), a member of International Association of Machinists 174 of Washington, D.C., served as a salaried AFL organizer from 1921 through at least 1924. Addams, Jane (1860-1935), the founder of Hull-House in Chicago in 1889, was an advocate of a wide variety of social and labor reforms. She was a founder of the National Child Labor Committee (1904) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909), president of the National Conference of Charities and Correction (1909), vice-president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1911-14), and president of the National Federation of Settlements (1911-35). Devoted to the cause of peace, she helped organize and was elected chair of the Woman's Peace party in January 1915 and in April of that year was made president of the International Congress of Women at The Hague. Addams later served as president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (1919-29), and in 1931 she was corecipient, with Nicholas Murray Butler, of the Nobel Peace Prize. Alexander, D. L., of Reedsville, Pa., helped organize the Axe and Edge Tool Makers' National Union of America and served as its secretary from 1890 to 1891. Alexander, John (b. 1842), was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1848. He eventually settled in Cincinnati, where he worked as a brewer until 1903 and joined National Union of the United Brewery Workmen of the United States 12. Alexander served as one of two national secretaries pro-tem of the Brewery Workmen during the latter part of 1901. From 1903 to 1913 he worked as a clerk; he continued to live in Cincinnati through the mid-1920s. Allen, Joseph B., a member of Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America 32 of Philadelphia, served as an AFL salaried organizer in 1902. Allimon, Walter A., served as corresponding secretary of Cigar Makers' International Union of America 219 and as secretary in 1903 of the Mobile (Ala.) Central Labor Union. 2 Alonso Torres, Rafael (1879?-1939), served as secretary of the Federación Libre de los Trabajadores de Puerto Rico (Free Federation of the Workers of Puerto Rico) from 1908 until his death and as an AFL salaried organizer from 1920 to 1921 and from 1923 to 1924. Alpine, John R. (1863-1947), was born in Maine and worked as a gas fitter in Everett, Mass., and then in Boston, where he was president of United Association of Journeymen Plumbers, Gas Fitters, Steam Fitters, and Steam Fitters' Helpers of the United States and Canada 175 (1904-5) and of the Boston Building Trades Council (1905). Alpine served as special organizer, vice-president (1904-6), and president (1906-19) of the international union (in 1913 renamed the United Association of Plumbers and Steam Fitters of the United States and Canada) and as an AFL vice- president (1909-19). During World War I he was appointed to the Cantonment Adjustment Commission that supervised labor relations on military construction jobs. He lived in Chicago from 1906 until 1920, when he moved to New York City, where he was employed by the Grinnell Co. as assistant to the president for labor relations. In 1931 President Herbert Hoover appointed him assistant secretary of labor in charge of the Federal Unemployment Service. Ammon, Charles George (1873-1960), was born in London. He served as chairman of the Fawcett Association, a mail sorters' union (1911-19), was editor of its journal (1904-11, 1918-19), and was later organizing secretary of the Union of Post Office Workers (1921-28). Ammon served on the London County Council (1919-25, 1934-46) and as a Labour member of Parliament (1922-31, 1935-44). In 1944 he was elevated to the House of Lords. Anderson, Edward E. (1869?-1937?), was born in Michigan and by 1903 was working as a barber in Pueblo, Colo. He served as secretary of Journeymen Barbers' International Union of America 219 of Pueblo (1904-15) and as vice- president (1911-15) and secretary-treasurer (1916-22) of the Colorado State Federation of Labor. He also served for a time as president of the Pueblo Trades and Labor Assembly and the Pueblo Union Label League and was editor and publisher of the Pueblo Labor Press. He served as an AFL salaried organizer in 1914 and again from 1919 to 1920. Anderson moved to Denver in 1916 and from 1929 to 1932 was secretary-treasurer of Barbers' local 205 of that city. Anderson, Mary (1872-1964), was a member of the general executive board of the Boot and Shoe Workers' Union from 1906 to 1919 and an organizer for the National Women's Trade Union League from 1911 to 1918. She was a member of the subcommittee on Women in Industry of the Committee on Labor of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense, was assistant director of the Women's Division of the Army Ordnance Department (1918), and was assistant director (1918-19) and then director (1919-20) of the U.S. Department of Labor's Women-in-Industry Service, and she served as director (1920-44) of the Department of Labor's Women's Bureau. Appel, George W. (b. 1860?), was born in Maryland and worked as a silver 3 plater and brass finisher in Baltimore. He served as the secretary of the Metal Workers' National Union of North America from 1886 to 1889. Applehagen, Emil (d. 1895), served as secretary of Cigar Makers' International Union of America 25 of Milwaukee (1885-89) and was a founder and president (1887-89) of the Milwaukee Federated Trades Council. Moving to Duluth, Minn., in 1889, he was elected president of the city's Trades and Labor Assembly and served as district organizer for the AFL. Appleton, William Archibald (1859-1940), was born in Nottingham, England, where he worked as a lacemaker. Moving to London, he served as secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Operative Lacemakers (1896-1907), secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (1907-38), and president of the International Federation of Trade Unions (1919-20). Arch, Joseph (1826-1919), was a founder of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union in 1872 and a Liberal/Labour member of Parliament (1885-86, 1892-1900). Archibald, James Patrick (1860-1913), an Irish-born paperhanger and a member of the Irish National Land League, served from 1882 to 1904 as an officer of the New York City Central Labor Union and its successor, the Central Federated Union, with the exception of one year. He was prominent in the KOL in the late 1880s, representing District Assembly 49 and paperhangers' National Trade Assembly 210 in the General Assembly. He served as master workman of National Trade Assembly 210 from 1888 to 1890. In 1895 he helped found the National Paperhangers' Protective and Beneficial Association, and he served for seven years as its president. The union merged in 1902 with the AFL's affiliate in the trade, the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America. Archibald served the Brotherhood as an organizer and as a local and district officer. In politics he moved from leadership in the Henry George New York City mayoral campaign in 1886 to support of Grover Cleveland. He served as warden of the Ludlow Street Jail in 1895, was active after the turn of the century in the New York City Civic Federation, was president of the Democratic Association of Workingmen of Greater New York, and for several years was the city's deputy commissioner of licenses. He served as an officer of the Workingmen's Federation of the State of New York and the New York State Federation of Labor. Arnold, Frank W. (1851-1917), was born in Columbus, Ohio, began working as a brakeman for the Pennsylvania Railroad at the age of sixteen, and later became a fireman, joining Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen 9 of Columbus, Ohio. In 1879 he was admitted to the Ohio bar. He served as grand master of the Locomotive Firemen from 1879 to 1885 and as grand secretary and treasurer from 1892 to 1904. After leaving union service he became a businessman and later an examiner for the Interstate Commerce Commission. 4 Arthur, Peter M. (1831-1903), a Scottish immigrant, was a charter member of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers' division 46 in Albany, N.Y., was the division's chief engineer in 1868, and represented it at Locomotive Engineers' conventions from 1866 to 1874. He served as second grand assistant engineer of the Locomotive Engineers from 1869 to 1874 and as grand chief engineer from 1874 until his death. As grand chief engineer he maintained the Locomotive Engineers' independence from the AFL and other labor organizations. Ashby (later Ashby-MacFayden), Irene Mary, participated in the establishment of industrial cooperatives in London and worked with the West London Social Guild on improving working conditions for women.