- Paul Mattick
Paul Mattick (1904-1981): Born in Pomerania in 1904 and raised in Berlin by class conscious parents, Mattick was already at the age of 14 a member of the Spartacists' "Freie Sozialistische Jugend". In 1918, he started to learn as a toolmaker at Siemens AG, where he was also elected as the apprentices' delegate on the workers' council of the company during the German Revolution. - Jack White
Jack White (1942 - October 12, 2005) was a veteran Rhode Island journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of President Richard Nixon's underpayment of income taxes. White's investigative article prompted Nixon to utter his famous line, "I am not a crook." White also won Emmy Awards for his reporting on fugitive banker Joe Mollicone and Providence tax officials who violated the city's residency requirement. - Derek Robinson
Derek Robinson was a well known Trade Union spokesperson and shop steward within the British Leyland (BL) company for much of the 1970s. BL itself had been the result of a series of mergers between a multitude of different British automobile manufacturers. However, the resulting company, the British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC), proved to be an unmanageable behemoth, crippled by ineffectual management and product duplication. - Carlos Mesa
Carlos Diego Mesa Gisbert Politician, historian and President of Bolivia from October 17, 2003 until his resignation on June 6, 2005. Mesa was a popular television journalist and personality, known by many for his rectitude and impartiality but loathed by many others for alleged political opportunism. His widespread name recognition prompted the MNR candidate Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada to pick him as his running mate in the 2002 Bolivian presidential elections. - Clarrie O'Shea
Clarence Lyell O’Shea, more commonly known as Clarrie O'Shea, was the Victorian State Secretary of the Australian Tramway & Motor Omnibus Employees' Association who was jailed in 1969 by Sir John Kerr for contempt of the Industrial Court when he disobeyed a court order that his union pay $8,100 in fines, under the penal sections of the "Conciliation and Arbitration Act". - Léon Jouhaux
Léon Jouhaux was a French trade union leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951. Jouhaux's father worked in a match factory in Aubervilliers. His secondary schooling ended when his father's earnings were stopped by a strike. He gained employment at the factory at age sixteen and immediately became an important part of the union. In 1900, Jouhaux joined a strike against the use of the white phosphorus that blinded his father, was dismissed, … - Eleanor Marx
Eleanor "Tussy" Marx was a Marxist author and political activist as well as the youngest daughter of the founder of Marxism, Karl Marx. Born in London, she was the sixth daughter of Marx and his wife Jenny von Westphalen. She showed an early interest in politics, even writing to political figures during her childhood. The hanging of the "Manchester Martyrs" when she was twelve, for example, horrified her and shaped her life-long sympathy for the Fenians. - Robert Carr
Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, PC (born November 11, 1916) is a British Conservative politician. Robert Carr was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he read Natural sciences, graduating in 1938. He was elected Member of Parliament for Mitcham in 1950 and served there until 1974 when the seat was merged and he moved to Carshalton. - Anna Walentynowicz
Anna Walentynowicz is a Polish free trade union activist. Her firing in August 1980 was the event that led to the strike in the Gdansk Shipyard that paralyzed the Baltic coast and led to the giant wave of strikes in Poland and eventually the creation of Solidarity, of which she became a prominent member. By September nearly a million workers were on strike in support of the twenty one demands, making it the largest strike ever. - Jim Henderson
D. James Henderson (born August 7, 1940 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1995. Henderson was educated at the University of Toronto, the University of Western Ontario, Johns Hopkins University, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. - Alceste de Ambris
Alceste De Ambris (1874, Licciana Nardi, in Massa-Carrara-1934) was an Italian syndicalist, the brother of Amilcare De Ambris. De Ambris had a major part to play in the agrarian strike actions of 1908. - Miguel Contreras
Miguel Contreras was an American labor leader. He "was known as a king-maker for both local and state politicians." Contreras was born in the Dinuba, a city in California's agricultural Central Valley to farmworker parents who had immigrated from Mexico during the 1920s under the Bracero Program. After meeting Cesar Chávez at a rally for Robert Kennedy in the late 1960s, he became an activist for the United Farm Workers. He promoted the Delano Grape Boycott in Toronto, … - Otto Strasser
Otto Johann Maximilian Strasser was a German politician and left-wing member of the National Socialist (Nazi) party who rejected some of Adolf Hitler's ideas and more moderate economical tendencies (those opposed to a radical socialist change and revolution). Strasser subsequently formed his own faction within the Nazi Party, along with his brother, Gregor Strasser. - Francisco Largo Caballero
Francisco Largo Caballero (October 15, 1869 -March 23, 1946) was a Spanish politician and trade unionist. He was one of the historic leaders of the Socialist Party (PSOE) and of the Workers' General Union (UGT). Born in Madrid, as a young man he made his living stuccoing walls. He participated in a construction workers strike in 1890 and joined the PSOE in 1894. Upon the death in 1925 of party founder Pablo Iglesias, he succeeded him as head of the party and of the UGT. - Per Johansson
Per Johansson (born 1960 ?) is a Swedish trade unionist, a Communist and labor organizer. He worked for Connex in the Stockholm Metro and was the leader of the local branch of the Swedish Union for Service and Communications Employees ("SEKO"), "club 119". Johansson was fired in late September 2005. According to SEKO it was due to complaints of neglected security and safety conditions for workers and passengers, … - George W. Taylor
George W. Taylor (July 10, 1901 - December 15, 1972) was a notable professor of industrial relations at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and is credited with founding the academic field of study known as industrial relations. He served in several capacities in the federal government, most notably as a mediator and arbitrator. During his career, Taylor settled more than 2,000 strikes. - Zbigniew Bujak
Zbigniew Bujak was an electrician and foreman in 1980 at the Ursus tractor factory near Warsaw, Poland. He became engaged with trade union activists, and during the strike action, he organized strike committees at the Ursus factory. He became chairman of the Warsaw Solidarity branch in September 1980 and was one the few Solidarity leaders who escaped arrest in 1981 after martial law in Poland was declared to break Solidarity. - Mike Mathis
Mike Mathis is a former professional basketball referee in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1976 to 2001. Over his career in the NBA, Mathis officiated nearly 2,340 games, including 12 NBA Finals and three NBA All-Star Games. Mathis is also the owner and Chief Executive Officer of ProHoop Courts, Inc., which specializes in the installation of basketball goal systems and playing surfaces. Mathis, a Vietnam War veteran, began officiating in 1967. - Bob Goodenow
Robert W. "Bob" Goodenow (born October 29, 1952 in Dearborn, Michigan) is an American manager, who became the Executive Director of the National Hockey League Players Association in 1992, succeeding the controversial Alan Eagleson. On July 28, 2005, Goodenow announced his resignation as Executive Director, with Ted Saskin being named his replacement. Goodenow graduated from Harvard University in 1974 and from the University of Detroit Law School in 1979. - William A. Maccorkle
William Alexander MacCorkle (b. May 7, 1857, d. September 24, 1930), was a United States teacher, lawyer, prosecutor, governor and state legislator of West Virginia, and financier. He was born near Lexington, Virginia. After briefly teaching school in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, he attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Returning to West Virginia, in 1879, he established a law practice in Charleston and also taught school. - William Attewell
William Attewell (commonly known as "Dick" Attewell; born June 12 1861, Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, England; died June 11 1927, Long Eaton, Derbyshire, England) was a cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and England. Attewell was a medium pace bowler who was renowned for his extraordinary accuracy and economy. - Brian Daubach
Brian Michael Daubach (born February 11, 1972 in Belleville, Illinois) is a free agent first baseman. He bats left-handed and throws right-handed. He has often served as a designated hitter and can also play the outfield. Daubach was selected by the Mets in the 17th round of the 1990 amateur draft. In 1995, he crossed picket lines to be a replacement player (scab) during the MLBPA players' strike, but the strike ended before any of the replacements saw game action. - Jack Horner
John Henry "Jack" Horner, PC (July 20 1927-November 18 2004) is a rancher and former Canadian politician and Cabinet minister. Nicknamed "Cactus Jack", Horner was born in Saskatchewan, the fifth child in a family of six boys and three girls. His mother's uncle had been a prisoner of Louis Riel's provisional government. - Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, formerly Kath Walker) (3 November 1920-16 September 1993) was an Australian poet, Political activist, artist and educator. She was also a campaigner for Aboriginal rights. Oodgeroo was best known for her poetry, and was the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse. Oodgeroo was born in Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island) in Moreton Bay (east of Brisbane), … - Bob Martinez
Robert "Bob" Martinez was the fortieth governor of Florida from 1987 to 1991. Prior to that, he was the mayor of Tampa from 1979 to 1986. Martinez was the first American governor of Cuban descent, and Florida’s second Republican since Reconstruction to be elected to the governor’s office. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Tampa and went on to earn a master's in labor and industrial relations from the University of Illinois. - Harry Quelch
Harry Quelch (30 January, 1858 - 17 September, 1913) was a socialist activist, journalist and trade unionist, brother of Lorenzo Quelch and father of Tom Quelch, also socialist activists. Born in Hungerford, Berkshire, he joined the Democratic Federation (forerunner of the Social Democratic Federation) in 1881 and was elected to its executive in 1883. When much of the party's hierarchy left to form the Socialist League, he remained a supporter of H. M. Hyndman. - Richard Karl von Tessmar
Generalmajor Richard Karl von Tessmar was a German soldier. He is notable primarily for his exploits during the First World War, during which he was commanded the German forces occupying Luxembourg. He led the forces that captured Luxembourg City on the 2 August 1914, before establishing his command in the city. On 26 August, 121 Belgian civilians were executed in at Arlon train station on his order. - William Trenwith
William Arthur Trenwith (July 15, 1846 - July 26, 1925) was a pioneer trade union official and labour movement politician for Victoria, Australia. Born to convict parents on July 15, 1846 at Launceston, Tasmania, he followed his father's trade as a bootmaker. Largely unschooled, barely literate, and with poor eyesight, Trenwith had a gift for oratory and public speaking which was to assist him in union organising and later as a politician. - Joseph Cahill
John Joseph Cahill (21 January, 1891 - 22 October, 1959) was Premier of New South Wales from 1952 to 1959. He is best remembered as the Premier who approved construction on the Sydney Opera House, and for his work increasing the authority of local government in the state - Nathan Feinsinger
Nathan Paul Feinsinger (September 20, 1902 - November 3, 1983) was a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He mediated and arbitrated a number of strikes, and served as general counsel to the Wisconsin Labor Relations Board and associate general counsel to the National War Labor Board (WLB). Feinsinger is best known for his mediation efforts in the 1944 telephone operators strike, the 1947 pineapple workers strike, the 1952 steel strike, … - Denny White
Dennis L. White of Columbus, Ohio, was the chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, 2002-2005. He was chairman of the Ohio delegation to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, where he urged members of his delegation not to cross picket lines in the event of a labor dispute between Boston's Mayor and its police union. This led several delegates to complain that they were being "forced to take a side without knowing all the facts". - Ryoichi Sasakawa
Ryōichi Sasakawa (May 18, 1899 - July 14, 1995) was a Japanese businessman, suspected World War II criminal, fascist, organized crime figure, renowned shipbuilder, philanthropist and goodwill ambassador. He is most famous for his ties to the Unification Movement and his boast of being "the world's richest fascist". During the Sino-Japanese War, Sasakawa rose to prominence by using his wealth to fund paramilitary forces in China, … - John Holman
John Barkell Holman was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for 23 years between 1901 and 1925. Born in Clunes, Victoria, on 26 February 1872, John Holman was the son of miner Edward Holman and Mary Anne nee Barkell. He was educated at Bendigo, then worked as a miner, first at Bendigo, where he became a member of the Bendigo Miners' Association in 1886; and later at Broken Hill, where he was involved in the strike of 1892. - Odd Eriksen
Odd Eriksen is a Norwegian politician (Labour). Eriksen was born in Sandnessjøen, Nordland, and grew up at Dønna. He started his working career in 1974 as an electrolysis operator at the Elkem aluminium works in Mosjøen. From 1986 to 1990 he was leader of the local trade union, among other things organising the strike during the lockout in 1986. Eriksen was vice member of parliament 1989 to 1993, and again from 1993 to 2001. - Samuel Sharpe
Samuel 'Sam' Sharpe, or Sharp, (1801, Jamaica - May 23, 1832, Jamaica) was also known as Daddy Sharpe, was the slave leader behind the Jamaican Baptist War slave rebellion. - Don West
Don West (1906 - September 29, 1992), was an American writer, poet, educator, trade union organizer, civil-rights activist and a co-founder of the Highlander Folk School. - George Frederick Baer
George Frederick Baer was an American lawyer who was the President of the Reading Railroad and spokesman for the owners during the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902. George Baer was born in Lavansville, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and attended first Somerset Institute then Somerset Academy for a High School Education. At the age of thirteen, Baer dropped out of school and became a "printer's devil" at a local type shop. - William E. Glasscock
William Ellsworth Glasscock (December 13, 1862 - April 12, 1925) was an American politician who served as governor of West Virginia as a Republican from 1909 to 1913. Glasscock was born in Monongalia County, West Virginia and graduated from West Virginia University. In 1903 he was admitted to the bar. Glasscock worked as an attorney for Senator Stephen B. Elkins. In his last year as governor, he declared martial law three times, sending troops to quell violent coal strikes. - Jake Cooper
Jake Cooper was an American Communist. He was active in the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 led by the Communist League of America and later became a member of the Socialist Workers Party and as a leading member of the SWP he was imprisoned under the Smith Act together with many other SWP leaders for opposing the US involvement in the Second World War. Cooper was also a founding member of the Fourth International. - M. F. Bowers
M.F. Bowers was sheriff of El Paso County, Colorado from 1894 to 1896. Prior to becoming sheriff, Bowers had been a saloon bouncer and a night marshall in the town of Altman, Colorado. Bowers is known for assisting in an attempt to suppress a mine workers' strike. During the Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894, …
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