List of Sailors - Labor Leaders

Labor Leaders

  • Joseph Curran, American labor leader
  • Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815–1882), wrote Two Years Before the Mast
  • Andrew Furuseth (1854–1938), merchant seaman and labour leader
  • Shannon J. Wall, American merchant seaman and labor leader

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