# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 365
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7282 "2011-09-05T17:23:52Z")
Important labor leaders 1. Samuel Gompers 2. Mary Harris “Mother” Jones 3. John L. Lewis 4. Lech Walesa 5. Buzz Hargrove 6. Keir Hardie 7. Walter Reuther 8. Emma Goldman ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7283 "2011-09-05T19:17:42Z")
Important labor leaders 1. Samuel Gompers 2. Mary Harris “Mother” Jones 3. John L. Lewis 4. Lech Walesa 5. Buzz Hargrove 6. Keir Hardie 7. Walter Reuther 8. Emma Goldman 9. Joe Hill > **[Joe Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill)** > > Joe Hill may refer to: ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7284 "2011-09-05T20:26:17Z")
Important labor leaders 1. Samuel Gompers 2. Mary Harris “Mother” Jones 3. John L. Lewis 4. Lech Walesa 5. Buzz Hargrove 6. Keir Hardie 7. Walter Reuther 8. Emma Goldman 9. Joe Hill 10. Eugene Debs ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7285 "2011-09-05T20:28:33Z")
Was Emma Goldman ever really a labor leader? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7286 "2011-09-05T20:44:23Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Was Emma Goldman ever really a labor leader? Sorta kinda, as a speaker and writer. Important labor leaders 1. Samuel Gompers 2. Mary Harris “Mother” Jones 3. John L. Lewis 4. Lech Walesa 5. Buzz Hargrove 6. Keir Hardie 7. Walter Reuther 8. Emma Goldman 9. Joe Hill 10. Eugene Debs 11. George Meany ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7287 "2011-09-05T21:06:58Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Sorta kinda, as a speaker and writer. She was an anarchist who spoke and wrote on a wide variety of issues. But as far as I know, she never even belonged to any labor union, much less led anything in the labor movement. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7288 "2011-09-05T21:08:16Z")
Important labor leaders 1. Samuel Gompers 2. Mary Harris “Mother” Jones 3. John L. Lewis 4. Lech Walesa 5. Buzz Hargrove 6. Keir Hardie 7. Walter Reuther 8. Emma Goldman 9. Joe Hill 10. Eugene Debs 11. George Meany 12. Ronald Reagan I’m sure he’d love the company he finds himself in here. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7289 "2011-09-05T23:55:00Z")
Important labor leaders 1. Samuel Gompers 2. Mary Harris “Mother” Jones 3. John L. Lewis 4. Lech Walesa 5. Buzz Hargrove 6. Keir Hardie 7. Walter Reuther 8. Emma Goldman 9. Joe Hill 10. Eugene Debs 11. George Meany 12. Ronald Reagan 13. Cesar Chavez Continuing the “labor” theme…the most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours. 1. Rocket scientist (Frankly I’m kind of amazed that I was able to pick Cesar Chavez–maybe he’s only really famous in California?) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7290 "2011-09-06T00:41:57Z")
Chavez was famous well beyond California: > **[Retired Site | PBS](https://www.pbs.org/retired-site/)** > > This Content is No Longer Available > **[USNS Cesar Chavez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Cesar_Chavez_(T-AKE-14))** > > USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE-14), a Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship, is the first ship operated by the United States Navy to be named for Cesar Chavez (1927–1993), labor leader and civil rights activist. > Chávez joined the Navy at the age of seventeen in 1944 during World War II, and served for two years. > Cesar Chavez's keel was laid down on 9 May 2011 by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) in San Diego. > The ship was launched on 5 May 2012. > Media related to IMO 9593127 at Wik... The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours 1. Rocket scientist 2. CIA satellite photoanalyst ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7291 "2011-09-06T00:58:36Z")
The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours 1. Rocket scientist 2. CIA satellite photoanalyst 3. Player piano repairman. (Too bad it didn’t say relative. The son of a direct ancestor of mine was appointed collector of the tax in New Haven under the infamous Tax Stamp Act. He had to ride up to Hartford quickly in order to resign his commission. His son later served on the Constitutional Convention that wrote the U.S. Constitution as a representative from Pennsylvania.) ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7292 "2011-09-06T03:49:26Z")
The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours 1. Rocket scientist 2. CIA satellite photoanalyst 3. Player piano repairman. 4. NAVY Seal ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7293 "2011-09-06T04:35:59Z")
The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours 1. Rocket scientist 2. CIA satellite photoanalyst 3. Player piano repairman 4. Navy SEAL 5. JAG officer in the Green Zone, Baghdad ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7294 "2011-09-06T11:48:37Z")
The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours 1. Rocket scientist 2. CIA satellite photoanalyst 3. Player piano repairman 4. Navy SEAL 5. JAG officer in the Green Zone, Baghdad 6. working actor as opposed to an actor with a day job ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7295 "2011-09-06T12:17:04Z")
The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours 1. Rocket scientist 2. CIA satellite photoanalyst 3. Player piano repairman 4. Navy SEAL 5. JAG officer in the Green Zone, Baghdad 6. working actor 7. Designer for the repair of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil leak ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7296 "2011-09-06T13:05:09Z")
The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours 1. Rocket scientist 2. CIA satellite photoanalyst 3. Player piano repairman 4. Navy SEAL 5. JAG officer in the Green Zone, Baghdad 6. working actor 7. Designer for the repair of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil leak 8. Tuskegee Airman ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7297 "2011-09-06T13:25:23Z")
The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours 1. Rocket scientist 2. CIA satellite photoanalyst 3. Player piano repairman 4. Navy SEAL 5. JAG officer in the Green Zone, Baghdad 6. working actor 7. Designer for the repair of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil leak 8. Tuskegee Airman 9. Episcopal deacon ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7298 "2011-09-06T17:13:32Z")
The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours 1. Rocket scientist 2. CIA satellite photoanalyst 3. Player piano repairman 4. Navy SEAL 5. JAG officer in the Green Zone, Baghdad 6. working actor 7. Designer for the repair of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil leak 8. Tuskegee Airman 9. Episcopal deacon 10. Video game tester ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7299 "2011-09-06T17:39:28Z")
The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours 1. Rocket scientist 2. CIA satellite photoanalyst 3. Player piano repairman 4. Navy SEAL 5. JAG officer in the Green Zone, Baghdad 6. working actor 7. Designer for the repair of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil leak 8. Tuskegee Airman 9. Episcopal deacon 10. Video game tester 11. Guinea pig for new drugs ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7300 "2011-09-06T18:25:50Z")
The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours 1. Rocket scientist 2. CIA satellite photoanalyst 3. Player piano repairman 4. Navy SEAL 5. JAG officer in the Green Zone, Baghdad 6. working actor 7. Designer for the repair of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil leak 8. Tuskegee Airman 9. Episcopal deacon 10. Video game tester 11. Guinea pig for new drugs 12. Coroner ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7301 "2011-09-06T19:49:16Z")
The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours 1. Rocket scientist 2. CIA satellite photoanalyst 3. Player piano repairman 4. Navy SEAL 5. JAG officer in the Green Zone, Baghdad 6. working actor 7. Designer for the repair of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil leak 8. Tuskegee Airman 9. Episcopal deacon 10. Video game tester 11. Guinea pig for new drugs 12. Coroner 13. Federal prosecutor Next category: U.S. Vice Presidential candidates who lost, their party, and the year 1. Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican, 1960 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=364) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=366)