Word: lewises
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Through four stormy decades, he was absolute sovereign of the men who worked the mines. To them he was a savior. His demagogic, often ruthless tactics alienated other Americans from Presidents on down. He gloried in playing the heavy in the drama of labor's awakening. When his sonorous...
Witch Hunt. Lewis was born to his job. His father, an immigrant miner from Wales, was blacklisted by his company's management for his role in a bitter, late-19th century strike John L. quit school before he finished the eighth grade, and by age 15 he had followed...
In 1920, Lewis became president of the United Mine Workers, a post he was to hold until 1960. During his first decade as union chief, economic conditions and his own mistakes almost destroyed the U.M.W. Faced with difficulties, he sought to offset bad publicity by launching a witch hunt for...
Enrolling Steel. Realizing that labor's future depended on organizing the unskilled, Lewis and other leaders rebelled against the exclusivity of the craft-oriented A.F.L. They formed the Congress of Industrial Organizations with Lewis as president. The C.I.O. extended unionization to the unskilled and semiskilled, organizing by industry instead...
Died. John L. Lewis, 89, leonine titan of the U.S. labor movement (see THE NATION).