Morris Hillquit (1869-1933) was a prominent Socialist and labor lawyer in New York City's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century. Born Moses Hilkowitz in Riga on August 1, 1869, he came to the United States in 1886. He helped found the United Hebrew Trades, a garment workers' union formed in 1888, while writing for the Arbeiter Zeitung, a Yiddish-language newspaper. He graduated from New York University Law School in 1893. Wikipedia
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