Word: johnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then a sizable bloc of Southern operators, led by Island Creek Coal's President James D. Francis, dusted off John Lewis' own terse dictum, tailored it a bit and tossed it back in his face. Their message: "No contract, no royalty payments." The Southern operators, who produce 40% of the nation's coal, cut off their 20?a ton payments to the U.M.W.'s $90 million-a-year welfare and retirement fund...
...last week old John was fit to be tied. He reached for his pen and served Island Creek's Francis with an ultimatum: ". . . In your mad and vengeful attack on the existence of the fund, you have rightfully calculated that you are bleeding it white ... A continuation of your policy of default and smash may cause reactions deterrent to the constructive progress of the industry. Will you or will you not remit?" Lewis rumbled...
...Next day John Lewis and Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, neutral trustee of the welfare fund, overruled the operators' Trustee Ezra Van Horn (who had submitted his resignation two days before) and made a drastic decision. Since the start of Lewis' three-day week, the fund had been taking in $5,000,000 a month and spending $8,000,000. Cut further by the halt of payments from the Southern operators, the fund had dwindled away to a bare $14 million. There was no way out; except for emergency payments all pension and welfare benefits would...
...John Lewis had no need for further comment. The word had already gone out. To U.S. coal miners, he was plainly proclaiming that the coal industry had declared war on widows, orphans, and the lame, halt and blind, and that a strike was in order. As John L. had prophesied, the halt in royalty payments had caused "reactions deterrent to the constructive progress of the industry...
...long, the phone rang in the Pentagon office of Navy Captain John G. Crommelin Jr. To each caller, blond, 46-year-old Captain Crommelin replied abruptly: "This telephone is tapped-you know that." The callers were fellow officers proffering him support. For John Crommelin had defiantly voiced what many of them thought, but had not dared to say: that the Navy's aviation was being destroyed under the guise of unification...