Edward Gaskin
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Edward Gaskin
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Edward A. Gaskin was an educator and labor leader. He fought for retirement benefits, against the low wages and the racial discrimination of the black laborers of Panama and the West Indies in the Canal Zone. Gaskin took his campaign to the President of Panama and successfully lobbied for highly beneficial clauses in the Remon-Eisenhower Treaty of 1955. Gaskin was also the principal of the La Boca School. In 1946 he founded the Teachers' Union. In 1985 he received the Silver Panama Canal Honorar
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Panamanian trade unionist
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2024-01-02T16:19:27Z
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