Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...P.M.W. was organized out of a bitter revolt against Lewis' high-handed methods, waged organizing battles with U.M.W. plug-uglies in which more than a score were killed. They erected a $250,000 monument to a tubthumping, whiskey-loving woman organizer, "Mother Jones" from Pennsylvania, whose most celebrated saying was, "Let not that traitor John Lewis ever breathe the air above my grave." "Mother Jones" turned up for all of P.M.W.'s toughest campaigns. Annually a giant memorial is held at her grave in Mt. Olive...
...pulled into Decatur, Ill., stopped. News men crowded around. What was John L. Lewis doing in this neck of the woods? And where had he got the gasoline? John Lewis brushed aside all questions: nothing at all --just going to Springfield -"for my annual visit with my mother." (Anna Louisa Lewis is 84.) This quote got into the papers. Decatur residents, remembering that John L. Lewis lived 750 miles away in Alexandria, Va., put in outraged calls to their ration board...
...complaint came from a citizen who had failed to get enough gas to visit his ailing mother, who later died. Local Chairman Clarence Seip complained to district headquarters...
Said Chairman Seip: "Lewis certainly couldn't have driven that distance on an A card, and a visit to his mother certainly could not be classified as essential driving...
...must be a soldier . . . [the girl] is essentially a future mother...