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This time John L. found his authority challenged by one Ray Edmundson, 42, of Springfield, Ill. For nine years husky Ray Edmundson had been the Lewis-appointed president of U.M.W.'s tough, bloody Illinois district, at $8,000 a year. Five months ago he threw up this sinecure, went back to the mines, and began fighting John L. on the issue of union autonomy, i.e., the right of districts to elect their own officers. (Of U.M.W.'s 31 districts, 21 are ruled by Lewis-appointed men, giving John L. near-perfect dictatorial control...
...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...