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Walter Polakowski, the Glossary

Walter Polakowski (January 18, 1888 – November 13, 1966) was an American upholsterer, trade union activist, and small business owner from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who served as a Socialist member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and Wisconsin State Senate for a total of 14 years.^[1]

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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America people
American trade unionists of Polish descent
Trade unionists from Wisconsin
Upholsterers

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) was a United States labor union known for its support for "social unionism" and progressive political causes.

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Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading).

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Bar (establishment)

A bar, also known as a saloon, a tavern or tippling house, or sometimes as a pub or club, is an establishment retail business that serves alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, liquor, cocktails, and other beverages such as mineral water and soft drinks.

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Bartender

A bartender (also known as a barkeep or barman or barmaid or a mixologist) is a person who formulates and serves alcoholic or soft drink beverages behind the bar, usually in a licensed establishment as well as in restaurants and nightclubs, but also occasionally at private parties.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.

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By-election

A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, and a bye-election or a bypoll in India, is an election used to fill an office that has become vacant between general elections.

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Committee

A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization.

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Corporation

A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law as "born out of statute"; a legal person in a legal context) and recognized as such in law for certain purposes.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Finance

Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets.

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Frank Kubatzki

Frank Stanley Kubatzki (May 12, 1877 – September 18, 1947) was a Polish-American blacksmith from Milwaukee who served three terms as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly representing the 8th Milwaukee County District (8th Ward of the City of Milwaukee). Walter Polakowski and Frank Kubatzki are politicians from Milwaukee.

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Grocery store

A grocery store (AE), grocery shop (BE) or simply grocery is a foodservice retail store that primarily retails a general range of food products, which may be fresh or packaged.

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Highway

A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land.

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Incumbent

The incumbent is the current holder of an office or position.

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Insurance

Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury.

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John C. Schafer

John Charles Schafer (May 7, 1893June 9, 1962) was an American railroad operator and progressive Republican politician from Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Walter Polakowski and John C. Schafer are 20th-century Wisconsin politicians and politicians from Milwaukee.

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John Polakowski

John J. Polakowski (born July 7, 1896) was a retail clerk, dispatcher and real estate broker from Milwaukee who served one term (1923–1924) as a Socialist member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the 8th Milwaukee County district (8th and 14th wards of the City of Milwaukee). Walter Polakowski and John Polakowski are members of the Wisconsin State Assembly, politicians from Milwaukee and socialist Party of America politicians from Wisconsin.

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Joint committee (legislative)

A joint committee is a committee made up of members of the two chambers of a bicameral legislature.

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Max Galasinski

Maximillian Joseph Galasinski (March 18, 1879April 13, 1972) was an American stonecutter, sculptor, sanitation supervisor and alderman from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who served one term as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and one term in the Wisconsin State Senate. Walter Polakowski and Max Galasinski are politicians from Milwaukee.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Milwaukee County.

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Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Milwaukee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where it is the primary newspaper and also the largest newspaper in the state of Wisconsin, where it is widely read.

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Newspaper hawker

A newspaper hawker, newsboy or newsie is a street vendor of newspapers without a fixed newsstand.

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Raymond J. Cannon

Raymond Joseph Cannon (August 26, 1894 – November 25, 1951) was an attorney, baseball player and Democratic politician who represented Wisconsin's 4th congressional district in the Congress from 1933 to 1939. Walter Polakowski and Raymond J. Cannon are politicians from Milwaukee.

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Redistricting

Redistricting in the United States is the process of drawing electoral district boundaries.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Right to work

The right to work is the concept that people have a human right to work, or to engage in productive employment, and should not be prevented from doing so.

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Sewer socialism was an originally pejorative term for the American socialist movement that centered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from around 1892 to 1960.

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Shoeshiner

Shoeshiner or boot polisher is an occupation in which a person cleans and buffs shoes and then applies a waxy paste to give a shiny appearance and a protective coating.

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The Socialist Party of America (SPA) was a socialist political party in the United States formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of America who had split from the main organization in 1899.

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Tax

A tax is a mandatory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization to collectively fund government spending, public expenditures, or as a way to regulate and reduce negative externalities.

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The Capital Times

The Capital Times (or Cap Times) is a weekly newspaper published Wednesday in Madison, Wisconsin, by The Capital Times Company.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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Unemployment benefits

Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, are payments made by governmental bodies to unemployed people.

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Union organizer

A union organizer (or union organiser in Commonwealth spelling) is a specific type of trade union member (often elected) or an appointed union official.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.

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Upholstery

Upholstery is the work of providing furniture, especially seats, with padding, springs, webbing, and fabric or leather covers.

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Ward (United States)

In the United States, a ward is an optional division of a city or town for administrative and representative purposes, especially for purposes of an election.

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William T. Evjue

William T. Evjue (October 10, 1882 – April 23, 1970; born Peder Wilhelm Theodor Evjue) was an American newspaper editor and radio broadcast executive. Walter Polakowski and William T. Evjue are 20th-century Wisconsin politicians and members of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States.

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Wisconsin Progressive Party

The Wisconsin Progressive Party (1934–1946) was a political party that briefly held a dominant role in Wisconsin politics.

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Wisconsin Senate

The Wisconsin Senate is the upper house of the Wisconsin State Legislature.

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Wisconsin State Assembly

The Wisconsin State Assembly is the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature.

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Wisconsin's 3rd Senate district

The 3rd Senate District of Wisconsin is one of 33 districts in the Wisconsin Senate.

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Wisconsin's 4th congressional district

Wisconsin's 4th congressional district is a congressional district of the United States House of Representatives in Wisconsin, encompassing a part of Milwaukee County and including almost all of the city of Milwaukee (except the slivers of the city in Waukesha and Washington counties), as well as its working-class suburbs of Cudahy, St.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Polakowski

Walter Polakowski, the Glossary

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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America people

American trade unionists of Polish descent

Trade unionists from Wisconsin

Upholsterers

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