Ralph Helstein
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Ralph Helstein was an American labour union official.
Born in Duluth
, Minnesota
, he graduated from the University of Minnesota
with a law degree in 1934. He practised law from 1936, but became increasingly involved in labour union activities, culminating in his tenure as president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America
from 1946 to 1968. He died in Chicago
in 1985.
Born in Duluth
Duluth
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, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
, he graduated from the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
with a law degree in 1934. He practised law from 1936, but became increasingly involved in labour union activities, culminating in his tenure as president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America
United Packinghouse Workers of America
The United Packinghouse Workers of America , later the United Packinghouse, Food and Allied Workers, was a labor union that represented workers in the meatpacking industry....
from 1946 to 1968. He died in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
in 1985.