Henry M. Walker - Secretary of the El Paso Central Labor Union
Henry M. Walker - Secretario de la Union Laboral Central de El Paso
Henry M. Walker - Secretary of the El Paso Central Labor Union
Henry M. Walker served in 1898 in Galveston, Tex. as president of the Galveston Labor Council, secretary of Retail Clerks' National Protective Association of America 130, reading clerk of International Typographical Union 28, and secretary paper for Houston and Galveston and was president of International Printing Pressmen's and Assistants' Union of North America 71. By 1901 he was a general organizer for the Retail Clerks' International Protective Association, serving in Denver. Later, in El Paso, Tex., he was secretary (1910) and then secretary-treasurer (1911-13) of the El Paso Central Labor Union and published the Labor Advocate (1910-11) and the Texas Union (1912-14). He also served as an AFL salaried organizer from 1902 to 1911. (Source: http://www.gompers.umd.edu/biographical%20dictionary.pdf)
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