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Patrick "the" Barber (Active)

Secretary of the Kodiak Federation of Industrial Unions
Leader of the Kodiak Workers' Party
(Technically the Kodiak Section of the Workers' International)

Born in 595 in Kodiak to two immigrant parents, Patrick Barber was raised in San Chico where he spent and equal amount of time in the mechanic shop down the road as he did in school. Originally educated as an agricultural mechanic at the San Chico Trades College, Barber moved to the agricultural region near Rykkburgh in 615 and it was here that he attended his first Kodiak Workers Party meeting. By 620 he was President of the Workers' Youth League. He was arrested a number of times for staging illegal walkouts and protests against local businesses and was charged at least twice with battery.

Barber was regional steward of the Kodiak Mechanics Guild and was instrumental in the amalgamation of it with the Automobile Workers Union into what is now the largest Kodiaker industrial union, the United Machinists Union. In 625 Barber was elected Assistant Secretary of the UMU and by 633 was Vice President of the Kodiak Federation of Industrial Unions. With the sudden death of Secretary Frank Hollowitz by heart failure in 635, Barber was eventually selected as KFIU Secretary in the fourth ballot.

There have been unconfirmed allegations of intimidation by members of the San Chico organised crime syndicates against KFIU electors. While there is no solid evidence Barber is involved in criminal activity, a number of businesses have been victims of arson after refusing UMU arbitration.

At least one retired intelligence officer has made allegations of KWP involvement with and funding for the "Peoples' Brigades," a known domestic terrorist group supposedly seeking a Marxist take over of the Kodiak State.

Patrick is often referred to as "the Barber" in reference to how thin he has managed shave operating margins for manufacturing businesses in Kodiak after union disputes.

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