Joseph Ettor

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Ettor (center) with Joseph Caruso and Arturo Giovannitti.
Born	1886
Died	1948 San Clemente, California
Occupation	Labor leader

Joseph J. Ettor (1886-1948) served as one of the leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) labor union, which conducted its first great Eastern strike in the United States involving some 35,000 workers in 1912 at Lawrence, Massachusetts. He participated in the Lawrence textile strike at a textile mill in January, 1912 during which a striker, Anna LoPizzo, was shot and killed. Joseph Caruso was charged with the murder. Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, who were giving speechs several miles away from the crime scene, were arrested as accessories. The three were eventually acquitted.

He was one of the leaders of the waiters' strike in New York City in 1913, and the barbers' strike in 1914 in that same city. Ettor became a member of the executive council of the IWW. In 1916, he was expelled from the IWW^[1] with Giovannitti^[2] and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn^[3] after a dispute over the Mesabi range strike.

In later years, he ran a fruit orchard in San Clemente, California, where he died in 1948.