Thomas I. Kidd

Thomas Inglis Kidd (December 12, 1860 – November 7, 1941) was a Scottish-born American labor union leader.

Born in Edinburgh, Kidd began working as a laborer when he was ten years old, before becoming a woodworker.

Kidd was elected as secretary of the new union, and also became editor of its journal, the Machine Wood Worker.

[2] However, in 1907, he left the union movement entirely, to become a sales representative for the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, and was promoted to become a branch manager in 1913.

[3] According to his obituary, He was one of three union representatives tried at Oshkosh, Wis., in 1898 on a charge of conspiracy to incite riot in connection with a lengthy lumber company strike."