Awards
Four years before her death in 1966, the 88-year old Mary Heaton Vorse entered the silver jubilee banquet of the United Auto Workers union, accompanied by union leader Walter Reuther. There she received the first UAW Social Justice Award, with former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and novelist Upton Sinclair looking on to share her honor. Vorse was feted for her work as one of the most important labor journalists of the 1920s and 1930s.
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