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Griffin Daily News
John L. Lewis Dead;
Was ‘King Os Coal’
By WESLEY G. BIPPERT
WASHINGTON (UPI) — John
L. Lewis burst onto the
American labor scene at a time
when coal was king.
When he departed thousands
of coal miners in Appalachia
and elsewhere in the nation
were out of work. They had
been replaced by bulldozers,
augurs, and trucks. Coal had
been replaced by gas, oil and
even the atom.
But while coal reigned, so did
John L. Lewis. His mighty
voice and righteous wrath were
legend to some and terror to
others. But they were his tools
in dominating the American
labor movement for a half
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century.
He died Wednesday night at
the age of 89.
Retired Nine Years Ago
Lewis, longtime president of
the United Mine Workers of
America (UMW) and first
president of the Congress of
Industrial Organizations (CIO),
retired nine years ago as head
of the Mine Workers. He had
warred with presidents, indus
trialists and other union lead
ers.
Until recently he came from
his home in suburban Alexan
dria, Va., every day to his
sixth-floor office in the UMW
Building in Washington in his
post as chairman of the
trustees of the huge UMW
Welfare and Retirement Fund.
Many said the fund which he
won after a long strike and
bitter battle with President
Harry S Truman in 1946 was
his greatest monument.
He entered Doctors Hospital
Sunday. Death came at 7:15
p.m. EDT from what Dr.
Marcel Foret called "an acute
illness” pending outcome of an
autopsy.
He was survived by a son,
Dr. John L. Lewis Jr., who
practices in Baltimore, Md.; a
brother, R. O. Lewis, Fort
Myers, Fla., former UMW vice
president; and a sister, Mrs.
Edith Collins, Kansas City. He
was preceded in death by his
wife, Myrta Edith Bell, a
former lowa school teacher, in
1942; a daughter, Kathryn, once
active in the labor movement;
and another daughter, who died
in childhood.
Begau As Coal Digger
Descended from a long line of
Welsh miners, Lewis began his
I career as a coal digger as a
youngster in Lucas, lowa,
where he was born on Abraham
Lincoln’s birthday—Feb. 12,
1880.
Lincoln freed the American
slaves. Lewis’ most ardent and
emotional supporters la te r
seized on his birth date as an
omen Lewis would free the
"industrial slaves.”
A master of the English
language who polished his
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ministrator of the Veterans
Administration is Donald E.
Johnson, shown at Newport
Beach. Calif., where Presi
dent Nixon announced his
appointment. Johnson, 44, a
former national commander
of the American Legion, is
from West Branch, lowa.
usage by reading the Bible and
Shakespeare, Lewis used words
to cut his opponents down to
size.
During a mining dispute in
the late 19305, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt quoted
Shakespeare and said a “plague
on both your houses.” Lewis
replied:
“It ill behooves one who has
supped at labor’s table and who
has been sheltered in labor’s
house to curse with equal
fervor and fine impartiality
both labor and its adversaries
when they become locked in
deadly embrace.”
Move to Illinois
In 1907, the year of his
marriage, the young couple
moved to Illinois, and a year
later Lewis began his career in
labor when he was elected
legislative representative of
District 12, UMW.
Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of
Labor, heard of his work and
appointed him to his staff. In
1917 he was elected to the vice
presidency of the UMW, and in
1919 be became its president.
Walter L. Hart, editor of the
Morgantown, W.Va., Dominion-
News, biographer and 50-year
friend of Lewis, said Lewis’
labor reign began in Septem
ber, 1919 under a crabapple
tree in Osage, W.Va., a small
town in the heart of the Great
Scot’s Run Coal Field. Lewis
got up and said:
“The working man has as
I much right to gather together
|to improve his lot in life by
I talking with management as
Judge Elbert Gary had in
putting together Carnegie Steel
and other firms to form U.S.
Steel Corp.”
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THE WREATH — Command Sergeant Major James
E. Dominey, attended by Sergeant Gordon L. Grubbs
and Specialist 5 Michael J. McLimans, lays the 82nd
Airborne Division’s wreath in services at Margraten,
The Netherlands on Memorial Day. The division’s
colors in the foreground, carried more than 3,000
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LEAVES FOR U.S.
BONN (UPD—Walter Scheel,
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the U. S. Memorial Garden, Margraten, The Nether
lands. The group left Fort Brang May 25 for Europe.
Dominey is the son of Mrs. George Siniangton of
Groffin, Ga.
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(UPI) —Prime Minister Tengku
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