Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Visits to Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania's anthracite region. In a 30-mile drive he was met by an unprecedented turnout of several hundred thousand, including many of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers, each of whom has been asked to contribute $1 toward the President's reelection. The Roosevelt panama was crushed completely out of shape in an afternoon of strenuous hat-waving at enthusiastic admirers...
Last April when word spread through the American Federation of Labor that elderly Daniel Tobin of the Teamsters' Union would be reappointed chairman of the Democratic National Committee's Labor Division, John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers and Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers laid their shrewd heads together. Teamster Tobin, they knew, was a stanch craft unionist, one of the twelve A. F. of L. vice presidents who firmly opposed their Committee for Industrial Organization. Almost overnight C. I. O. Leaders Lewis & Hillman formed Labor's Non-Partisan League. To give...
Simone Simon, 19, was so thoroughly in dulged by her father, a French engineer, that in Madagascar, where he is running a graphite mine, he allowed her to roam the streets with two cub panthers on a leash. Back in Paris she went to art school, followed the well-worn course into musical comedy bits. One day W. Tourjansky, free-lance director, saw her in a street cafe, addressed a soft remark to her. She slapped his face. Impressed, he tested her, cast her as Pierrette in Chanteur Inconnu opposite Opera Singer Lucien Muratore. She made Le Roi des Palaces...
...Labor and its secretary-treasurer sat down together in Washington as the Federation's Executive Council, to consider official business. Actually, there was no serious need for consideration because all present were virtually agreed that the time had come to throw John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers and the unions which formed his Committee for Industrial Organization...
...council table. Promptly Fourth Vice President John Coefield of the plumbers' and steamfitters' union challenged his right to be present because his union was on trial. Astutely Mr. Dubinsky reminded Mr. Coefield that, if that rule were followed, President Green, who is a member of the United Mine Workers, had no right on the premises either. Mr. Green ruled that Mr. Dubinsky could stay. Then Mr. Dubinsky pleaded that action on the C. I. O. be deferred until the A. F. of L. Convention next November...