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William Daniel Mahon (1861–1949) was a former coal miner and streetcar driver who became president of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees of America, now the Amalgamated Transit Union. ==Early years== William D. Mahon was born in Athens, Ohio in 1861. He worked in the Hocking Valley coalfields of Ohio as a miner. In the late 1880s he moved to Columbus, Ohio and became a mule car driver. Mahon wrote of conditions in the days of horse-drawn trolleys, "It is a fact that in the early days the horse received much better treatment than the car man who drove him. Men could be easily replaced even at the miserable wages paid, but a horse cost money." In 1893 Mahon represented the Columbus local in asking the Ohio Legislature pass a law requiring streetcar companies to enclose their cars to protect the platform men. The request was successful despite strong opposition from the street railway owners, and the first vestibule law was passed that year. The Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes of America ("the Amalgamated") was founded at a meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, in September 1892 called by Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor. Mahon attended the meeting as representative of the Columbus local, but said little. William J. Law was elected president. The union struggled during its first year, and Law proved to be an ineffective leader. William D. Mahon was elected president at the 1893 convention. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William D. Mahon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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