Word: umw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John L. Lewis, starving for personal power at a time when group cooperation is vital, still lives in the thirties. Crying that "the CIO is trying to destroy your entire organization by criticizing UMW officers," he has taken the miners who first followed him out of the AF of L, and led them, with very different purpose, into a new camp. This time he is not merely bucking a Roosevelt or a Murray. He is bucking the combined will of American Labor to unite and cooperate in time of emergency. Under the force of that will, he shall be crushed...
...whole UMW struck for 10 days...
...NEVER HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF HARLAN COUNTY COAL OPERATORS ASSOCIATION. IT DOES NOT AND NEVER HAS HIRED THUGS OR GOONS, OR "FOUGHT TO KEEP WAGES DOWN." ITS EMPLOYES ARE REPRESENTED NOT BY CIO'S UNITED MINE WORKERS BUT AFL PROGRESSIVE MINE WORKERS WHO HAVE TWICE DEFEATED UMW IN NLRB ELECTIONS. WE DEEPLY RESENT YOUR IMPUTATION OF ANTI-UNION ACTIVITY TO THIS COMPANY. IN HARLAN COUNTY, AS ELSEWHERE, OUR ONLY INTEREST IN UNION OR GANIZING EFFORTS IS TO LEARN THROUGH LABOR BOARD ELECTIONS WHAT UNION THE EMPLOYES WANT TO REPRESENT THEM...
...dispute between the United Mine Workers of America (CIO) and steel companies which own the mines-revolving around UMW demands for a union shop-appeared to have hogged down in a week-end stalemate. All sides maintained a strict silence...