Harry R. Poole

Harry Ralston Poole (January 4, 1915 – July 7, 1994) was an American labor union leader.

Born in Bridgeville, Delaware, Poole became a meat cutter in Philadelphia in 1933, and immediately formed a new local of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters.

He also served as president of the Food and Beverage Trade Department of the AFL-CIO.

He led it into a merger with the Retail Clerks International Union, forming the United Food and Commercial Workers.

On completion, in 1979, this was the largest merger in American labor union history.