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John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers President plaque located in Lucas, Iowa After serving as statistician and then as vice-president for the UMWA, Lewis became that union's acting president in 1919. On November 1, 1919, he called the first major coal union strike, and 400,000 miners walked off their jobs.
The United Mine Workers under John L. Lewis announced a strike for November 1, 1919. [1] They had agreed to a wage agreement to run until the end of World War I and now sought to capture some of their industry's wartime gains.
John L. Lewis (1880–1969) was the highly combative UMW president who thoroughly controlled the union from 1920 to 1960. A major player in the labor movement and national politics, in the 1930s he used UMW activists to organize new unions in autos, steel and rubber.
In 1920, the UMW's new president John L. Lewis sought to finally end the three-decade resistance [13] to unionization in the area. He was under increased pressure to do so from both miners elsewhere participating in the United Mine Workers coal strike of 1919 , and from affected mine operators who were now being undercut by nonunion mines in ...
John Lewis Barkley (August 28, 1895 – April 14, 1966) was a United States Army Medal of Honor recipient of World War I. Born in Blairstown, Missouri, near Holden, Barkley served as a Private First Class in Company K, 4th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division. He earned the medal while fighting near Cunel, France, on October 7, 1918.
When John L. Lewis, Philip Murray, and other men of power in the new CIO negotiated the first contracts for auto workers and steelworkers, these contracts, even if only a few pages long, typically contained a no-strike clause. All workers in a given workplace were now prohibited from striking as particular crafts had been before.
The United Mine Workers under John L. Lewis called a strike for November 1, 1919, in all soft (bituminous) coal fields. [75] They had agreed to a wage agreement to run until the end of World War I and now sought to make permanent their wartime gains.
John L. Lewis. Number ~510,000 UMW Miners ~100,000 Non-Union Miners 10,000 UMW Pump Operators. The 1922 UMW Miner strike or The Big Coal Strike [1] was a nationwide ...