Joseph Patrick McDonnell (1847-1906), born in Ireland and active in the Fenian movement, joined the International Workingmen's Association (IWA) after moving to London in 1868 and served as Irish secretary of the IWA's General Council. He immigrated to New York City in 1872 and began editing the Labor Standard, journal of the Workingmen's Party of the United States (WPUS), in 1876. He moved the paper to Boston in 1877 and Paterson, N.J., in 1878. He was a founder of the International Labor Union and, in 1883, helped organize the New Jersey Federation of Trades and Labor Unions (FTLU); he served as the FTLU's chairman until 1897. In 1884 he was a founder of the Paterson Trades Assembly. He became New Jersey's first factory inspector in 1884 and, in 1892, was appointed to the New Jersey Board of Arbitration. McDonnell continued to publish the Labor Standard until his death.