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...Federation, the battle lines were already clearly drawn. On one side were ranged William Green and his fellow craft unionists, representing nearly two-thirds of A. F. of L.'s membership. Beneficiaries of an entrenched order, they would fight to preserve it. Against them stood John Llewellyn Lewis and his fellow industrial unionists of the Committee for Industrial Organization, representing A. F. of L.'s remaining strength. Visionaries of a new order, they would fight to create it. A. F. of L.'s Executive Council was debating whether to suspend from the Federation, on a charge...
This pacific declaration was supplemented by an ominous growl from the Committee's potent leader. John Llewellyn Lewis: "If the steel industry insists on a fight we have no alternative but to meet them. I should judge that they would do just that thing. They always have...
...others to make the steel drive possible was not only far from the scene of these significant activities, but did not even have a place on the organizing committee. Big as was the job of changing the labor structure of the nation's heaviest of heavy industries, John Llewellyn Lewis in the past few weeks had already moved on to larger operations. The United Mine Workers' president, the leader of the largest U. S. labor union, the founder and chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization, John Lewis was rapidly becoming a potent force in national as well...
Steel is the great, historic U. S. industry that Labor has never been able to organize. For the past eight months two factions within the American Federation of Labor-President William Green's conservative craft unionists and United Mine Worker John Llewellyn Lewis' progressive industrial unionists-have been at deadlock over the question of Labor's future form of organization, and Labor's future leadership. It was agreed that the man who maneuvered himself into position for the first dash over Steel's frontier would have a heavy advantage over his opponent, the chance...
Earle S. Ebers, assistant in Chemistry, Llewellyn T. Evans, assistant in Biology, Harry B. Friedgood, Research Fellow in Chemistry, Sergel I. Gaposchkin, William M. Goodhue, instructor in Electrical Engineering, William F. Greshman 3G., David T. Griggs J. F., instructor in Physics, George A. Harcourt, assistant in Economic Geology, Roger W. Hickman, instructor in Physics, Alfred H. Holway 3G., Frederick V. Hunt, associate in Medicine...