Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John L. Lewis learned in 1947 that it is dangerous to play fast & loose with the courts. The lesson cost him and his United Mine Workers $710,000. Last week, therefore, ordered by a federal judge, he sullenly appeared before a presidential fact-finding board and explained his version of...
The winners are: Lewis McA. Branscomb 2G, Wayland C. Griffith '45 2G, Peter MacNair 2G, Peter H. Nash 1G, Henry H. McR. Bain, Jr. 1G, Charles Breunig '42 3G.
The board summoned the operators and John Lewis. The operators obediently appeared. But not John. Until he did, the Taft-Hartley machinery was stalled. Cunning John, who hates the Taft-Hartley Act, knew that the longer he delayed, the more the nation's coal stockpile would dwindle, the more...
The Joy Continuous Miner will not solve the labor problem in coal mines. John L. Lewis once said that he would rather have 100,000 union members secure in their jobs than 400,000 who were insecure. But mine operators were anxious to see the machine. One of them has...
Were there such men left in England? The advertiser, John Henry Eserin, managing director of a London steeplejack firm, doubted it. He had long been growing discouraged over the apathy of Britain's steeple jacks ; the good climbers were too old, and the young ones too unwilling to face...