Word: edmundson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edmundson revolters held a pre-convention caucus. For 90 minutes, there was talk of "union democracy." Then a scuffle broke out in the rear, and the chocking sound of fist meeting jaw. Lewisites swarmed over chairs, mounted the rostrum, demanded-and took-the floor. Edmundson left, forgetting his coat...
...Thugs" v. "Gigolo." To newsmen, Edmundson denounced the Lewismen as "payrollers, sluggers, drunks, alley thugs...
Next day, in Cincinnati's gabled, turreted old Music Hall, John L. counterattacked Edmundson. To the cheering delegates he growled: "There isn't any mincing, lackadaisical, lace-pantied gigolo going to dethrone John L. in his own convention...
...John L., the Edmundson rebellion was clearly a plot by Franklin Roosevelt, Sidney Hillman and Earl Browder to embarrass him. He shouted: "Don't Browder and Hillman and Roosevelt know that for 25 years I have met every champion of American finance and industry that American politics has produced...
...week's end John L. got down to the good old-fashioned business of attacking the mine owners. (Ray Edmundson had fled town, unable even to gain a seat.) The operators heard that, at next spring's contract negotiations, U.M.W. would want the same pay for a 35-hour week which it is now getting for 40 hours-with portal-to-portal time included at regular rates...