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...organized labor marked the high point of Leader Lewis' career. Undoubtedly he, a hidebound Republican, could never have achieved this success if it had not been for a Democratic President whose New Deal had turned Industry and Labor topsy-turvy. But his foresight and energy in organizing coal miners under NRA, his ironhanded persistence in negotiating a union coal code with non-union operators, marked him as Labor's man-of-the-hour. A ragged broken band were United Mine Workers before March 4. They claimed 300,000 members but of these probably less than half paid dues...
...John L. Lewis is today the most intellectual and well-read leader in the whole labor field. He was not born to such graces 53 years ago in Lucas, Iowa. His father was a Welsh miner whose pioneer union activities forced the family to move to Illinois. At the age of 12 Son John, big of body, loud of lungs, went into the mines as a mule-driver. Later he mined silver in New Mexico, copper in Arizona, gold in Colorado. Smarter than most, he got a job as U. M. W. lobbyist at Springfield, 111. He still lives there...
Many a coal miner considers President Lewis a racketeer. That is because he is as ruthless as any political boss in running his organization. Dissenters are put down with fist and foot. Every U. M. W. election brings its charge that ballot boxes have been stuffed with Lewis votes from locals which exist only on paper...
...Many a miner considers President Lewis a strikebreaker. That is because he called off the 1919 coal strike in the face of a Federal injunction with the statement that "We can't fight the Government." He was also accused of strikebreaking when in 1927 after the lapse of the Jacksonville agreement he permitted temporary wage contracts to be negotiated in Illinois and Indiana...
...Many a miner considers President Lewis a hireling of the operators. That is because he sanctioned the signing of a Kentucky wage agreement on the eve of the 1922 strike. Frank Farrington, U. M. W. leader in Illinois, accused him of receiving $100,000 from Kentucky operators for letting them run while northern mines were closed. Later President Lewis showed that Leader Farrington was down for $25,000 per year on the payroll of Peabody Coal...