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John L. Lewis, a man of vivid dislike, has no use for James Boyd. The reason is secondhand: Lewis primarily doesn't like Secretary of Interior Julius Krug, whom Lewis once described as having a "squirt mentality and a balloonized physique." So when Krug got the President to appoint Boyd director of the Bureau of Mines two years ago, Lewis blackballed Boyd...
Until last week nobody minded much but 44-year-old James Boyd, a mining engineer, father of four small sons, and former dean of Colorado School of Mines. Because Lewis' miners in Colorado, as elsewhere, are opposed to Boyd, Colorado's Republican Eugene Millikin blocked his confirmation to the $10,000-a-year Government job. So for the past 14 months Boyd has not drawn a nickel in pay. He got by, he said, by "adjusting my family's resources" and growing vegetables...
...paid much attention to Boyd's unhappy situation. But last week everyone sat up. Without warning, Lewis ordered some 470,000 coal miners east of the Mississippi River to quit work for two weeks to "mourn the unnecessary slaughter of 55,115 men killed and injured in the calendar year, 1948, during Boyd's incumbency of his usurped office . . . Concurrently," ordered Lewis, "the mine workers will pray for relief . . . [and the ousting] of an ignorant and incompetent Boyd." The mourning period put out of work an additional 69,000 employees of coal-carrying eastern railways...
...Senate committee reacted by at last voting 10 to 1 to confirm Boyd (Millikin dissenting). But Lewis had more on his mind than Boyd. A two weeks' work stoppage would drastically reduce the present big 70 million-ton, soft-coal stockpile-a 45 days' supply. With a lot less coal on hand, operators would be more amenable when Lewis presented them with his new contract demands. His present contract expires June...
...Class also picked ten committee-men-at-large: Charles D. Baker of Kirkland House and Freeport, New York; Lynn W. Eley of Kirkland House and Zearing, Ohio; Brantley Harris of Winthrop House and Galveston, Texas; Boyd Higgins of Kirkland House and Indian-apolis; Donald B. Louria of Winthrop House and Brooklyn, New York...