A. Harry Moore Archives - New Jersey Globe

Labor Leader: ex-Yankees pitcher later served as N.J. Commissioner of Labor

September 5, 2022 12:14 amSeptember 4, 2022 3:46 pm

Before Bill Bradley, there was Harry C. Harper. Known as “Hackensack Harry,” Harper spent ten seasons as a major league baseball pitcher. The big left-hander was the starting pitcher for the New York Yankees game six of the 1921 World...

Labor Leader: Vincent J. Murphy was NJ AFL-CIO president, two-term Mayor of Newark

September 5, 2022 12:10 amSeptember 4, 2022 4:08 pm

One of the most influential labor leaders in New Jersey history was Vincent J. Murphy (1893-1976), who spent nine years as the president of the New Jersey AFL-CIO after two terms as the Mayor of Newark. He was the Democratic...

Labor Leader: Louis Marciante headed the NJ AFL for 27 years

September 5, 2022 12:07 amSeptember 4, 2022 3:38 pm

Louis P. Marciante (1898-1961) was the president of the New Jersey American Federal of Labor (AFL) from 1934 until his death of a heart attack at age 62 amidst a stressful merger between the AFL and the Congress of Industrial...

Labor Leader: Arthur Quinn was a Middlesex senator, state AFL president

September 5, 2022 12:02 amSeptember 4, 2022 4:01 pm

Arthur A. Quinn (D-Perth Amboy) was a state senator from Middlesex County in the 1930s and wrote the law establishing eight-hour workdays for state, county and municipal employees. Quinn had organized the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America...

Labor Leader: Louis Marciante headed the NJ AFL for 27 years

September 6, 2021 12:09 amSeptember 4, 2021 3:44 pm

Louis P. Marciante (1898-1961) was the president of the New Jersey American Federal of Labor (AFL) from 1934 until his death of a heart attack at age 62 amidst a stressful merger between the AFL and the Congress of Industrial...

Labor Leader: ex-Yankees pitcher later served as N.J. Commissioner of Labor

September 6, 2021 12:07 amSeptember 6, 2021 12:14 am

Before Bill Bradley, there was Harry C. Harper. Known as “Hackensack Harry,” Harper spent ten seasons as a major league baseball pitcher. The big left-hander was the starting pitcher for the New York Yankees game six of the 1921 World...

Labor Leader: Arthur Quinn was a Middlesex senator, state AFL president

September 6, 2021 12:04 amSeptember 5, 2021 6:02 pm

Arthur A. Quinn (D-Perth Amboy) was a state senator from Middlesex County in the 1930s and wrote the law establishing eight-hour workdays for state, county and municipal employees. Quinn had organized the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America...