The Memoirs of Wendell W. Young IIIPhiladelphia native Wendell W. Young III was one of the most important American labor leaders in the last half of the twentieth century. An Acme Markets clerk in the 1950s and 60s, he was elected top officer of the Retail Clerks Union when he was twenty four. His social justice unionism sought to advance wages while moving beyond collective bargaining to improve the conditions of the working class majority, whether in a union or not. Young quickly