Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The President tossed Mr. Lewis' paper aside, declared an hour later that he did not know its contents. Fanny Perkins and Messrs. Woll, Bates & Rickert, hurriedly scanning it, did not hide their feeling that John Lewis had pulled a fast one on them and on Franklin Roosevelt. When they...
"Oh, I'll go on WPA," quipped John Lewis, who draws no pay from C. I. O. but has $25,000 a year from his United Mine Workers.
Between the Lewis proposal and the A. F. of L. position is one big difference: the Federation prefers to settle jurisdictional conflicts before admitting C. I. O.'s unions to a reunited organization. Otherwise, industrial unionists would be sure to dominate from the start. New to peace talk was...
New also was the suggestion that 65-year-old, weighty (216-lb.) Alexander Fell Whitney might become the overall head of U. S. Labor. White-topped, lively Mr. Whitney runs his rich Brotherhood with iron hand, vehemently opposes A. F. of L.'s proposed Wagner Act amendments, has no...
Soon Woll & Co.-who would hardly welcome Mr. Whitney as a boss-had to reverse themselves and consider the Lewis proposal seriously. Franklin Roosevelt startled them with the news that Teamster Dan Tobin had agreed to rejoin their committee. Having first refused to serve as an A. F. of L...