Edward A. Gaskin (3 February 1918, Red Tank, Panama – August 10, 2001) was an educator and labor leader. He fought for retirement benefits, against the low wages and the racial discrimination of the black laborers of Panama and the West Indies in the Canal Zone. Gaskin took his campaign to the President of Panama and successfully lobbied for highly beneficial clauses (retirement benefits and equal pay for equal work) in the Remon-Eisenhower Treaty of 1955.
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1918
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2001 (aged 82)
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