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Death Takes Ike's First Labor Chief
Washington reports the death of Martin F. Durkin, 71, former President Eisenhower’s first Labor Secretary and longtime AFL Plumbers Union president. Durkin died after a yearlong brain tumor illness at Georgetown University Hospital, with widow Anna H. McNicholas and three sons at his side. He resigned in 1933 after seven months, later serving as Illinois labor director from 1933 to 1941. Durkin, born March 13, 1894, in Chicago, was a lifelong union member.
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