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| Name | Street Address | City | State | Historical Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor Hall of Fame | Frances Perkins Building; Dept. of Labor: 200 Constitution Ave. NW | Washington | DC | The Labor Hall of Fame honors those Americans whose distinctive contributions to the field of labor have enhanced the quality of life of millions. Included are leaders: Samuel Gompers, John L. Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Eugene V. Debs, and Mother Jones. |
| Lattimer Massacre Memorial & Historical Marker | Lattimer mines, village entrance (fork of "Front" & "Back" Sts.) |
Hazelton | PA | Immigrant workers remember the site where Polish, Lithuanian and Slovak miners were gunned down by the Lattimer Sheriff deputies on Sept. 10, 1897. The miners were marching peacefully and without weapons for collective bargaining and civil liberty. |
| Lewis, John L., Home | 614 Oronoco St. | Alexandria | VA | John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), lived here from 1937-1969 and was the last resident owner of the historic home. |
| Lewis, John Llewellyn, Gravesite | Oak Ridge Cemetery; 1441 Monument Ave. | Springfield | IL | John L. Lewis (1880-1969) was President of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) from 1920 to 1960. He and his union played the leading role in forming the CIO and in organizing the United Auto Workers and the United Steel Workers of America. |
| Liberty Hill Monument | 5th St. & Harbor Blvd. | San Pedro | CA | The Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union 510 of the IWW rallied at Liberty Hill in 1923 to protest low wages, bad conditions and imprisonment of union activists. Author Upton Sinclair was arrested while attempting to read from the Bill of Rights. |
| Little, Frank, Gravesite | Mountainview Cemetery; Harrison Ave. | Butte | MT | Marks the grave of Frank Little, who after organizing a strike of metal miners against the Anaconda Company on Aug. 1, 1917, was dragged by six masked men from his Butte hotel room and hung at the Milwaukee Railroad trestle. |
| Lopizzo, Anna, Grave Marker | Lawrence | MA | Anna Lopizzo was killed at age 34 during the Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 in Lawrence, MA. More than 30,000 laborers were on strike for 63 days against American Woolen Co. after management cut wages. | |
| Ludlow Massacre Monument | located between Walsenburg and Trinidad, 0.75 mile west of I-25 | Ludlow | CO | Pays tribute to the 19 men, women and children killed in their tent colony on April 20, 1914. The National Guard set fire to the colony and shot those who fled. |
| Lundeberg, Harry, Memorial | 450 Harrison St., outside entrance to the Sailors Union of the Pacific Hall | San Francisco | CA | Harry Lundeberg (1901-1957) was president of the Seafarers International Union (1938-1957), head of the Sailors Union of the Pacific, and chartered the Brotherhood of Marine Engineers in 1949. He established the first pension and welfare plans for seamen. |
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