John L. Lewis: Labor LeaderLooks at Lewis's 4 decades as UMW president and the 20th century American labor movement. Contains detailed chronology. |
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Labor Leader Robert H. Zieger. Lewis's announcement for Willkie stunned laborites . In union halls and workers ' homes , unionists sat speechless . In Austin , Minne- sota , a group of cio meat packers had gathered to hear their chief ...
Labor Leader Robert H. Zieger. Lewis's announcement for Willkie stunned laborites . In union halls and workers ' homes , unionists sat speechless . In Austin , Minne- sota , a group of cio meat packers had gathered to hear their chief ...
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... laborites awarded FDR in defense and foreign policy paid dividends . One by one , the Little Steel compa- nies , which had beaten back swoc in 1937 , capitulated . Militant steel- workers and smoothly functioning NLRB proceedings ...
... laborites awarded FDR in defense and foreign policy paid dividends . One by one , the Little Steel compa- nies , which had beaten back swoc in 1937 , capitulated . Militant steel- workers and smoothly functioning NLRB proceedings ...
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... Laborites and journalists alike regarded these initiatives with a mixture of amusement and apprehension . The Construction Workers campaigns , actually begun in retaliation for the AFL's granting a charter to a group of dissident mine ...
... Laborites and journalists alike regarded these initiatives with a mixture of amusement and apprehension . The Construction Workers campaigns , actually begun in retaliation for the AFL's granting a charter to a group of dissident mine ...
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