William Green

Labour leader, born in Coshocton, Ohio, USA. A coal miner from age 16, he rose in the union ranks and served in the Ohio senate (1911–15). He was secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America (1913–24) and then succeeded Samuel Gompers as president of the American Federation of Labor (1924–52). He helped to shape the National Industrial Recovery Act (1933) and the National Labor Relations Act (1935). An opponent of industrial unionism, he forced out the unions that then formed the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO), with whom he struggled to the end of his life. He was the epitome of the respectable, responsible labour leader who chose to restrain the more radical approach to management and labour relations. He attended a conference in London (1949) that formed the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions to promote non-Communist labour unions in Europe.

William Green may refer to the following:

William Ellis Green, an Australian cartoonist. Green, III, Mayor of Philadelphia William Semple Green, a ferryboat captain, mail carrier, surveyor, editor, writer, legislator, Surveyor General of the United States, and California State Treasurer William Green (labor leader), president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 until his death in 1952 S.