D.C.. before completing his second 4year term as the elected Representative of Puerto Rico in Congress. I have always had great admiration for Santiago IglesiasPantin in his dual role as politician and as labor leader. Born in La Corufia. Spain. on February 22. 1872. he attended the common schools and was apprenticed as a cabinet maker. But soon he emigrated to Havana. Cuba. where he Immediately joined the ranks of labor. From 1889 to 1896 he served as secretary of the Workingmen Trades Circle. and then moved to Puerto Rico where he devoted his efforts to journalism and founded three newspapers. all of them labor oriented: Porvenir Social. 18981900.
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