Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leader Lewis and the heads of the nine industrial unions joined with his United Mine Workers in the Committee for Industrial Organization were summoned to appear before the A. F. of L. Executive Council this week on charges, punishable by suspension of their A. F. of L. charters, of attempting to set up a rival labor organization. Far from knuckling under, Committee for Industrial Organization leaders welcomed into their fellowship the stripling United Rubber Workers and United Auto Workers unions, announced that organizational drives in the rubber, automobile and textile indus tries would be pushed simultaneously with the steel campaign...
...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 as industrial affairs. Reporters in the Senate Press Gallery knew it fortnight ago when they...
...diamond goes to Mrs. Lewis, a onetime Iowa schoolmarm. Like the wife and scion of any prosperous businessman, Mrs. Lewis and her only son John L. Jr. were last week on their way to Europe for a summer vacation. About on a par with the decor of a successful mine superintendent's home is that of John L. Lewis' neat colonial house in Alexandria, Va. There in his lovely garden he now receives the flower of legislative society. Perhaps the only mannerism which still betrays his early career as a mine mule-skinner is his habit of hitching...
...soft coal was dug under union contract. More than half of U.M.W.'s 300,000 membership probably failed to pay dues. Under the New Deal's NRA, U.M.W. suddenly gained 200,000 members which it has managed to keep, now represents 95% of the industry. On mine operators John Lewis riveted the "check-off"-that potent device whereby employers automatically deduct union dues from payrolls, turn the proceeds over to the union, which is thus kept strong and well-fed. Result: U.M.W. today has a war chest of some $2,000,000. From 1934 John Lewis can date...
...International Typographical Union; Amalgamated Clothing Workers; International Ladies' Garment Workers; United Textile Workers; Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers; United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers; International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers...