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Lewis' lawyers shouted that the sentence was "cruel." Welly K. Hopkins, UMW chiew counsel, made a raging, emotional protest in which he roared that the government, to further the administration's political aims, was seeking to "break the union politically, financially, and morally...
...addition, the justice of such actions is uncertain. Although the government has taken over the mines, the profits revert to the owners. A strike called in the mines now may be a strike against the government in a juris fictio, but in reality the UMW will be going out for higher wages from the operators. And, since all controls have been taken off, there is no case that the government is upholding policy. The criminal part of it is that Lewis, confident of his own strength, has refused to bargain fairly with the government...
...strong union in a utility cannot be beaten if it is determined to win. The conditions of employment in the mines are such that the UMW is one of the most closely knit unions in the nation, and experience has shown the men the cost of refusing to follow their leaders. With considerable justice, they place their union over the welfare of other citizens and will be quite willing to paralyze the national economy...
...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...