James Munroe Stone (August 13, 1817 â December 19, 1880) was an American labor reform advocate and politician who served as a member, and from 1866 to 1867, the Speaker of, the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
In the early 1840s Stone published the Worcester-based weekly newspaper the State Sentinel, later the State Sentinel and Reformer.
Stone was a major advocate of labor reform in Massachusetts, he worked for years to pass the Ten Hour work day legislation in Massachusetts.