John Lewis, of Lucas, Iowa, would have fought for the board. Lewis was born in 1880 as the son of Thomas Lewis, an immigrant ...

Eight times in the past five years, the Great Gargoyle of U.S. labor had flashed the walkout signal and his 400,000 soft coal miners had obeyed. Eight times, fighting the companies, the Government or ...

At Atlantic City, five years ago, insurgents led by John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman defied the hierarchy of the American Federation of Labor. Out of that convention sprang the Congress of Industrial ...

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