co-sponsored by the Farmer Labor Education Committee

A panel of local historians will discuss four significant Saint Paul labor leaders:

• William Mahoney, founder of the Farmer Labor Party, editor of the UNION  ADVOCATE, and mayor of Saint Paul in the early 1930s
  

  William Mahoney, St. Paul Mayor

• Frank Boyd, organizer of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, leader of  St. Paul’s African American community, and civil rights pioneer
• Florence Rood, president of the St. Paul Federation of Teachers, first woman  to serve as president of a union which had male and female members, and appointee to the Minnesota Board of Education
• Joe Karth, president of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers’ Union at 3M,  and US Congressman representing Saint Paul, 1950-1958

light food and refreshments provided