Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he was a youngster bumming around the coal fields of the West a generation ago, big, red-headed John Llewellyn Lewis once had the job of driving a mine mule named Spanish Pete. Pete was a mankiller. Rounding a tunnel curve one day, the creature slewed around, reared, raised its hoofs, prepared to bash Lewis against the mine wall. Young John had just enough time to spike Pete between the eyes with the point of the sprag of his coal car. To avoid imminent fine and dismissal, the young mine worker rubbed clay over the prostrate Pete...
...their formidable president, United Mine Workers of America like to tell this tale as an illustration not only of his strength and courage but of his resource and guile. Last week, for the first time since they moved their headquarters from Indianapolis, 1,716 U. M. W. leaders met in Washington for their biennial convention. There was more money ($2,298,000) in the treasury, more members (540,000) on the rolls than ever before in the union's 46 years. But what made the miners' convention really significant was that the doughty conqueror of Spanish Pete would...
John Lewis is an industrial unionist. Any worker in the coal industry can find a place in his United Mine Workers. For a greater labor movement and a more united front, John Lewis wants to see 40,000,000 U. S. workers organized in industrial unions like his and amalgamated into something like the American Federation of Labor. MINER LEWIS, HIS HOUSE & OFFICE-He takes his unionism vertically. Less than 15% of the workers in U. S. industry now belong to the A. F. of L., whose total membership is short of 3,500,000. Fundamentally it is an association...
...brought out the U. S. Army and ended in a treason trial in the same Charles Town, W. Va. courthouse where John Brown was found guilty. There was Powers Hapgood from Illinois, nephew of oldtime liberal Editor Norman Hapgood. He had worked his way around the world in coal mines, had been fired on for distributing handbills in Pennsylvania. In a thoroughly rebellious spirit such delegates as these introduced hundreds of resolutions favoring President Lewis' stand for industrial unionism, voted approval of a radio campaign to spread their leader's views, authorized their executive board to withhold...
...rafters they applauded social-minded Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Josephine Roche, great friend of Labor, first Colorado mine owner to bargain with U. M. W., who declared: "To stigmatize the battle to bring security to our people ... is nothing less than a travesty on justice. . . . 'O Liberty! what crimes are committed in thy name...