Martin Lawlor (unionist)
Martin Lawlor (November 27, 1868 – September 2, 1959) was an Irish-born American labor union leader. Born in County Kerry, in Ireland, Lawlor emigrated to the United States in 1885 or 1886. He settled in Bethel, Connecticut, where he completed an apprenticeship as a hatter, and joined the Bethel Hat Makers' Union, becoming its secretary in 1890. He remained secretary when the union became the National Hat Makers' Association of the United States. In 1896, it merged into the United Hatters of North America, and Lawlor served on the new union's executive board. In 1898, Lawlor was elected as vice-president of the union, then in 1904 as its secretary; from 1911, its secretary-treasurer. He led a boycott of D. E. Loewe & Company, an anti-union fur hat manufacturer, which sued him for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. The lengthy case, ''Loewe v. Lawlor ''Loewe v. Lawlor'', 208 U.S. 274 (1908), also referred to as the Danbury Hatters' Case, is a United States Supreme Cou ...
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County Kerry
County Kerry ( gle, Contae Chiarraí) is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and forms part of the province of Munster. It is named after the Ciarraige who lived in part of the present county. The population of the county was 155,258 at the 2022 census, A popular tourist destination, Kerry's geography is defined by the MacGillycuddy's Reeks mountains, the Dingle, Iveragh and Beara peninsulas, and the Blasket and Skellig islands. It is bordered by County Limerick to the north-east and Cork County to the south and south-east. Geography and subdivisions Kerry is the fifth-largest of Ireland's 32 traditional counties by area and the 16th-largest by population. It is the second-largest of Munster's six counties by area, and the fourth-largest by population. Uniquely, it is bordered by only two other counties: County Limerick to the east and County Cork to the south-east. The county town is Tralee although the Catholic diocesan seat is Killarney, whi ...
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