On February 2, 1902. Isabelo de los Reyesfounded the first labor union in the Philippines, called the Union Obrera Democratica Filipina (Philippine Democratic labor Union) Senator Isabelo delos Reyes was born in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, on July 7, 1864 to Elias de los Reyes and Leona Florentino. He acquired his early education in the Seminary of Vigan. The cruel discipline imposed by the friar-professors and their arrogance and bigotry inflamed his rebellious spirit so that he came to have a lifelong for frailocracy. In 1880, at the age of 16, he went to Manila and enrolled in the College of San Juan de Letran. Two years later, on his eighteenth birthday on July 7, 1882, his father died. After receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Letran, he entered the University of Santo Tomas, where he studied law and paleography. In 1886 he finished the course on notary public, but could not practice it because he was then 22 years old - three years short of the minimum age required by law to qualify as notary public. On February 2, 1902. hefounded the first labor union in the Philippines, called the Union Obrera Democratica Filipina (Philippine Democratic labor Union), with himself as president and Hermenegildo Cruz as secretary, Realizing the value of propaganda, he founded and edited the first labor newspaper in the country, La Redencion del Obrero (The Redemption of the laborer), which championed the rights of labor. Great Filipino Mason One of the great Filipinos who emerged out of the turmoil of three historic regimes, Spanish, Revolutionary and American – was Don Isabelo de los Reyes who was born in Vigan, Ilocos Sur on July 7, 1864 and died on October 12, 1938. De los Reyes’ Masonic affiliation is not clear. Records show that Jose A. Ramos, then Treasurer of Luz de Oriente Lodge, invited him to join Masonry and in 1896, a sixty year-old priest confessed that he was initiated into Masonry by de los Reyes An uncompromising nationalist, labor leader, newspaperman, historian and founder of the Philippine folklore, de los Reyes acquired his early education in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, in the same seminary where Gregorio Aglipay would later enrol. Shortly after the January 17, 1897 execution of the 13 Martyrs of Bagumbayan, de los Reyes was jailed in the Bilibid prison where he wrote Sensacional Memoria sobre la Revolucion Filipina, which became one of the valuable works of the Revolution. He was later deported to Spain and at the turn of the century when the Americans conquered the Philippines, he returned to the country and organized the first labor union in the Philippines called Union Democratica Filipina. An acknowledged mastermind of the general strike, he later founded the Iglesia Filipina Indepediente and convinced Gregorio Aglipay to become its first Obispo Maximo. He was elected councilor for two terms in the city of Manila and in 1922 won as Senator. Don Belong gave up politics after his term as Senator expired and devoted his remaining life to religion and his first love- writing where he authored most of the Aglipayan literature of his time. Famous Filipino Masons 67.20.123.37/glphils2011/content/isabelo-delos-reyes
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