e/Agricultural Workers Organization

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has glosseng: The Agricultural Workers Organization (AWO), an organization of farm workers throughout the United States and Canada, was formed on April 15, 1915 in Kansas City. It was supported by, and a subsidiary organization of, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Although the IWW had advocated the abolition of the wage system as an ultimate goal since its own formation ten years earlier, the AWO's founding convention sought rather to address immediate needs, and championed a ten hour work day, premium pay for overtime, a minimum wage, good food and bedding for workers.
lexicalizationeng: Agricultural Workers Organization
instance of(noun) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
brotherhood, trades union, trade union, labor union, union

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