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...prime trader nowadays is bull-necked John Llewellyn Lewis of United Mine Workers. With United Mine Workers' contracts about to expire simultaneously with the late NRA on June 16, Miner Lewis has been brewing a big bituminous strike to keep wages up (TIME, June 10). In wholehearted sympathy with him are most of the Northern bituminous mine operators, who will continue to pay high wages if the Government will continue to help hold coal prices up. Miner Lewis, abetted by the owners, has been working a trade with the Administration whereby he would call off his coal strike...
...Every miner wants a new agreement. All that a miner has is his pay check. Failure to make a contract will mean that he no longer would have that income...
...Sappho was suppressed because the leading lady was carried up a flight of stairs in the arms of a man. In 1907 Mary Garden was prevented from appearing in an opera, Salome. . . . When I was a boy-I'll change that to a young man-I went to Miner's Bowery burlesque theatre and saw young women dancing in tights. There was more whistling than during a fan dance or a bubble dance of today...
...long-nosed Harper Sibley, the Chamber's new head and a personal friend of President Roosevelt since student days at Groton and Harvard. An affable Rochester (N. Y.) capitalist with his family's traditional interest in that city's Security Trust Co., President Sibley is a miner, a lumberman and a grand-scale farmer. He likes to work with the laborers on his 4,000-acre ranch at Santa Rita. Calif., or on his 350-acre farm at Sibleyville, near Rochester. In Illinois, where he is the State's largest individual land owner, he owns...
Though illiterate, young "Dave" Lewis learned the gift of eloquence from his father, a Welsh coal miner who was a Baptist preacher by avocation. At 20, Son Lewis went to a labor meeting and spoke so stirringly that a newshawk said to him: " Boy, you ought to be a lawyer." At 23, Lewis was. And ten years later, having settled at Cumberland. Md., he began a political career, long, thorny, courageous...