DAVIS, JAMES JOHN

(1873), the merican labor leader and Cabinet April, lember; b. Tredgar, South Wales. He tempt clothes, sceived a limited education in the ublic schools and at the age of 11 went severely ) work in iron mills at Pittsburgh, Pa., Monroe. ) which city his parents had come with which him im in 1881. Later he worked as a uddler in steel plants and after moving was > Elwood, Ind., found employment in 1868. n plate mills. He became a leader Rise ment, mong the workingmen and held several lin or. political offices in Indiana. He Confederate ‘as one of the organizers and since 1907 as been a director of the Loyal Order discoverer; f Moose. On March 5, 1921, he became to ecretary of Labor in the Cabinet of called resident Harding. long