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Joseph Geating McCoy Joseph Geating McCoy
Joseph Geiting McCoy Joseph Geiting McCoy (1837-1915), American cattleman, built the first livestock shipping center on the Great Plains. Joseph G. McCoy was born on a farm in Sangamon County, Ill., on Dec. 21, 1837. He was educated in local schools and spent a year in the academy of Knox College... Read more
Unemployment insurance Unemployment insurance
Unemployment InsuranceBIBLIOGRAPHYUnemployment insurance is a program of social insurance designed to compensate workers for part of the wage loss caused by involuntary joblessness. Weekly benefits are paid to eligible workers as a matter of right, according to benefit schedules or formulas... Read more
Union Shop Union Shop
UNION SHOP A type of business in which an employer is allowed to hire a nonunion worker, who, however, must subsequently join the union in order to be permitted to continue work. A union shop is different from a closed shop; in the latter situation, the employee must be a union member before... Read more
James Henry Scullin James Henry Scullin
James Henry Scullin James Henry Scullin (1876-1953) was an Australian politician and the first native-born Labour prime minister of Australia. James Scullin was born the son of a railway worker near Ballarat, Victoria. He was brought up a Roman Catholic and formally educated only at primary... Read more
International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF MINE, MILL, AND SMELTER WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF MINE, MILL, AND SMELTER WORKERS. In its first incarnation as the Western Federation of Miners (WFM), established at a convention in Butte, Montana, on 15 May 1893, the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter... Read more
Joe Hill Joe Hill
Joe Hill 1879-1915, Swedish-American union organizer; b. Sweden, as Joseph Hillstrom. He came to the United States in 1902 and, as a maritime worker, joined the Industrial Workers of the World in 1910. He wrote many labor songs, including "Casey Jones" and "The Union Scab." Found guilty... Read more
David Dubinsky David Dubinsky
DUBINSKY, DAVID 1892-1982 P RESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL LADIES GARMENT WORKERS UNION Leadership In the early months of 1933 the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) stood virtually in ruins. Internal factionalism had ripped the union apart. By the end... Read more
Mahlon Pitney Mahlon Pitney
PITNEY, MAHLON Mahlon Pitney served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1912 to 1922. A lawyer, legislator, and New Jersey Supreme Court judge before his appointment, Pitney was a judicial conservative who believed in "liberty of contract" and who generally opposed efforts to... Read more
cooperative movement cooperative movement
cooperative movement series of organized activities that began in the 19th cent. in Great Britain and later spread to most countries of the world, whereby people organize themselves around a common goal, usually economic. The term usually refers more specifically to the formation of nonprofit... Read more
International Brotherhood of Teamsters International Brotherhood of Teamsters
International Brotherhood of Teamsters 25 Louisiana Avenue N.W. Washington, B.C. 20001-2198U.S.A.Telephone: (202) 624-6800Fax: (202) 624-6918Web site: http://www.teamster.org Labor Union Chartered: 1903Members: 1.5 millionNAIC: 81393 Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations The... Read more

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