Robert Howard (unionist)
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Robert Howard (unionist)
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Robert Howard was a British-born American labor union leader and politician. Born in Nantwich, in Cheshire, to parents from Ireland, Howard began working as a piercer in a silk mill in Macclesfield when only 8 years old. When he was 10, he moved to Stockport, to work with bobbins in a cotton mill. Five years later, he became a spinner, and at the age of 25, he became president of the local trade union of spinners. As the leader of the union, he sought to avoid strikes through negotiation, and ca
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