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labor organizer

n. someone who enlists workers to join a union [syn: organizer, organiser]

Usage examples of "labor organizer".

It was a picture of my one-time idol, Kenneth Whistler, the Harvard-educated labor organizer, shaking hands with a small and goofy-looking college boy.

He had insisted on being a worker as well as a labor organizer, and would have found modern union officials with their soft, pink palms intolerable.

Much decorated in the First World War, he had become a rabble-rousing labor organizer in the twenties, and was a veteran of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street, when Cockneys attacked Fascists who were trying to march through a Jewish neighborhood in London's East End.

His career as a labor organizer ran parallel, from the old Wobblies to the comparative respectability of his present job: officially executive secretary of a local union, actually a roving trouble shooter with considerable voice in national councils.

Few if any of the neighbor women had ever seen the buggy a well-known labor organizer kept in a Trinidad carriage house.

When Mother Jones, the eighty-nine-year-old labor organizer, came to Homestead in 1919 to try to help organize the union again, she was carted off by the cops when she tried to make a public statement.

This was very amusing to Chen Ju since the girl's father was a labor organizer and fully seventy percent of Sawyer 6V Sons' labor force came under his jurisdiction.

More assassinations: an Italian businessman, a member of the British Parliament, a labor organizer in Belgium.