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John Yurko 1905 - 1975

John Yurko of Streator, La Salle County, Illinois was born on February 25, 1905, and died at age 70 years old in November 1975.
John Yurko
Streator, La Salle County, Illinois 61364
February 25, 1905
November 1975
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    1905

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    February 25, 1905
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  • 11/dd
    1975

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    November 1975
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    John Yurko lived 2 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 70.
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In 1905, in the year that John Yurko was born, the Industrial Workers of the World was founded. An international labor union founded in Chicago, it was most often referred to as the "Wobblies" and had ties to the socialist movement and the anarchist movement. At its peak, it had 150,000 members.
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In 1933, he was 28 years old when Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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