Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Life. He was born in Lucas, a small Iowa mining town, on Feb. 12, 1880, of Welsh parents who immigrated in the 70's. His father was a blacklisted coal miner in the " Big Screen Strike" of 1882 and was forced to go to Des Moines. Those were the times of the ten-and eleven-hour day and a minimum wage...
...young man Lewis had a wandering foot; he worked in various coal mines. He showed early power of leadership, being chosen Manager of his home ball team, President of the Debating Lyceum and Athletic Club, finally Justice of the Peace. He was active in union politics in the State of Illinois...
During the war he was a member of Secretary Franklin K. Lane's National Committee of Coal Production. In 1919, during the illness of Federation President Hayes, he took charge of the bituminous coal strike, winning an unprecedented 27% increase of wages. In 1920 he was elected President of the Mine Workers by a huge majority, receiving, according to Joseph P. Tumulty, " more votes than the Democrats" in the Presidential election...
...charge of the anthracite coal strike, called to wring a new contract from the operators, which he carried to a successful conclusion, after the personal intervention of President Harding...
...Mitchell. Lewis' career and character are similar to those of John Mitchell, leader of the Pennsylvania coal strike of 1902, which started with the operators' declaration: " There is nothing to arbitrate," was fought through the summer under Mitchell's slogan, " Fight to a bitter end," and was arbitrated by President Roosevelt in October, 1902, after Mitchell had won public fear and respect by his determined and unflinching character...