Collection: Gioacchino Artoni papers | University of Minnesota Archival Collections Guides

Abstract

Papers (1915-1937) of Gioacchino Artoni (1866-1937), an Italian American labor organizer, consist primarily of newspaper clippings about him.

Dates

Creation: 1915-1942

Creator

Artoni, , Gioacchino, 1866-1937 (Person)

Language of Materials

English and Italian

ACCESS RESTRICTIONS

Open for use in the Elmer L. Andersen Library reading room.

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HISTORICAL SKETCH

Gioacchino Artoni (1886-1937) was born in Gualtresi, Reggio-Emilia, Italy. After coming to the United States, he worked as a manual laborer, as a miner in Pennsylvania, as a ditch digger, a farmer, and in the silk industry in Paterson, N.J. Artoni, a socialist, was self-educated. He was an organizer of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and was known with great affection by his colleagues as "Papa Artoni".