Artoni, Gioacchino, 1886-1937.

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Gioacchino Artoni (1886-1937) was born in Gualtresi, Reggio-Emilia, Italy. After coming to the United States, he worked as a manual laborer, as a miner in Pennsylvania, as a ditch digger, a farmer, and in the silk industry in Paterson, N.J. Artoni, a socialist, was self-educated. He was an organizer of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and was known with great affection by his colleagues as "Papa Artoni".

From the guide to the Gioacchino Artoni Papers, 1915-1942, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Immigration History Research Center [ihrc])

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Birth 1886

Death 1937

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