Cecil Roberts is a miner and president of the United Mine Workers of America. He also sits on the AFL–CIO's executive council. Roberts is the great-grandson of Ma Blizzard.
Roberts in 2009
Eugene V. Debs
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Eugene Victor Debs was an American socialist activist and trade unionist. He was one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World and a five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of
Cecil Roberts (labor unionist)
…were maintained, and coal companies will increase contributions to the UMWA Pension Fund by more than $500 million. In 2008, Roberts received the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Award. Baratz, Morton S. The Union and the Coal Industry. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1955…
Debs, c. 1912
Debs as a young man
Striking American Railway Union (ARU) members confront Illinois National Guard troops in Chicago during Debs's rebellion in 1894.
Seven of the eight officers of the American Railway Union jailed in connection with the 1894 Pullman Strike. (Standing, L-R): George W. Howard, Martin J. Elliott, Sylvester Keliher. (Seated, L-R): William E. Burns, James Hogan, Roy M. Goodwin, Eugene V. Debs. Not Shown: L. W. Rogers.