Tag: Labor Unions

Clarence Darrow is a well-known libertarian lawyer who defended highly unpopular cases. He is most famous for is the Scopes Monkey Trial. Darrow, at the behest of the then nascent American Civil Liberties (ACLU) and in collusion with the school’s superintendent , approached a Tennessee high school teacher to claim he had lost his position […]

Biograph: John Llewellyn Lewis was a coal miner and son of coal miners who became an American labour leader & president of the United Mine Workers of America (1920–60). He was also the chief founder and first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO; 1936–40), now part of the AFL-CIO. Mapping John L John […]

Tom Mooney, baptized Thomas Joseph Mooney, was born Dec. 8, 1882, in Chicago, Illinois. A second generation coal miner, Tom became a galvanizing Socialist union organizer, a tireless activist who convicted of murder and then pardoned. Industrial Workers of the World Mooney became committed to Socialist politics after several trips to Europe and joined the […]

John Llewellyn Lewis was a coal miner and son of coal miners who became an American labour leader & president of the United Mine Workers of America (1920–60). He was also the chief founder and first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO; 1936–40), now part of the AFL-CIO.