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...soldier in the Middle East drew a cartoon for the Stars & Stripes. We will tell you what the cartoon portrayed. John L. Lewis, in miner's dress, was throwing dirt with a coal shovel upon the freshly marked grave of some kid in North Africa. . . . God knows it expressed the attitude of the overwhelming majority of soldiers in this and any other theater...
...device designed to guide rescuers at night: a tiny searchlight, the size of a walnut, whose beam can be seen 65 miles away. Much more powerful than an ordinary flashlight, it has a single tungsten filament, produces a 1,500-candlepower beam, is worn on the head like a miner's lamp...
Bird Scarer. Short, blue-eyed Henry Moore is the son of a self-educated Yorkshire miner. Henry's first work was scaring birds out of grain fields at the age of nine. His first piece of sculpture was his school's (Castleford Grammar) World War I roll of honor, which he did before joining the British Army himself...
...miner son of a Welsh immigrant, John Lewis grew up not in the school of Socialist Eugene Debs but in that of the late, great Sam Gompers, who made the House of Labor one. From Gompers, Lewis learned the conservative tactics of straight trade unionism. In the early years in the Mine Workers he feared, hated and fought those "carrion birds," Socialists and Communists...
Next morning, early, as the dew glistened on the cropped grass and the lilac bushes in front of Orient No. 2, no miners reported for the early shift. The whistle blew. "Let her blow," said a miner. "Sure, let her blow her head off." The miners were busy at other chores, mostly gardening. Said a grey-haired miner in faded overalls, spading his bean patch: "I hate to quit now. I got boys in the service and I realize what it might mean to the Government...