Denis A. Hayes
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| death_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
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| occupation = Labor leader
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Denis A. Hayes (1860 – January 2, 1917) was an American labor union leader.
Biography
Born in County Clare in Ireland, Hayes emigrated to the United States with his family, when he was seven years old. The family settled in Zanesville, Ohio. Hayes worked on a farm before finding work in a glass bottle factory.{{cite journal |title=Denis A. Hayes |journal=The Elevator Constructor |date=January 1917 |volume=XIV |issue=1}} He later moved to Newark, Ohio, where he joined the United Green Glass Workers' Association of the United States and Canada. In 1894, he was elected as vice-president of the union, and in 1896 as president of what became the "Glass Bottle Blowers Association of the United States and Canada".{{cite book |title=The Samuel Gompers Papers |date=1986 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=9780252033896}}
Hayes moved to Philadelphia to take up the presidency of the union. In this role, he was prominent in the campaign against child labor.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-times-dennis-a-hayes/160906869/ |title=Dennis A. Hayes, Labor Leader |newspaper=The New York Times |place=Philadelphia |page=11 |date=1917-01-02 |publication-date=January 3, 1917 |access-date=2024-12-14 |via=Newspapers.com}} From 1901, he also served as a vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, and on the executive of the National Civic Federation. For the last 22 years of his life, he lived in the Hotel Windsor. He died there on January 2, 1917, and was buried in Zanesville.
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{{succession box|title=Sixth Vice-President of the American Federation of Labor|years=1900–1905|before=Thomas I. Kidd|after=Daniel Keefe}}
{{succession box|title=Fifth Vice-President of the American Federation of Labor|years=1905–1909|before=Thomas I. Kidd|after=William Huber}}
{{succession box|title=Fourth Vice-President of the American Federation of Labor|years=1909–1913|before=Max Morris|after=Joseph F. Valentine}}
{{succession box|title=Third Vice-President of the American Federation of Labor|years=1913–1917|before=James O'Connell|after=Joseph F. Valentine}}
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Category:American trade union leaders