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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 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.
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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 ...
Christopher, John, ed. British Posters of the First World War (2016) Darracott, Joseph, and Belinda Loftus, eds. The First World War Posters (1974) Dover. Posters of World Wars I and II CD-ROM and Book (2005) 120 American posters from WWI; ISBN 978-0486996844; Rawls, Walton and Maurice Rickards, eds. Wake Up, America.
Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, The Great War is a non-fiction book by British author John Lewis-Stempel, focusing on the relationship between British soldiers and nature during World War I. The book explores how nature provided solace, distraction, and a sense of normalcy amidst the horrors of war.