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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.
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 ...
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.
UMW president John L. Lewis authorized the calling of a general strike on September 1, [3] and the strike formally began at midnight on September 8. [2] As many as 15,000 of the 27,000 coal miners in the state stopped work. [4] [5] UMW vice-president Van Bittner was sent to the state to oversee the effort. [6]
The Herrin massacre took place on June 21–22, 1922 in Herrin, Illinois, in a coal mining area during a nationwide strike by the United Mineworkers of America (UMWA). ). Although the owner of the mine originally agreed with the union to observe the strike, when the price of coal went up, he hired non-union workers to produce and ship out coal, as he had high debt in start-
In March, it dropped to 21,500, before reaching the low point in July at 19,900. The average for the year was 22,500 workers. The rampant job loss resulted in new non-union truck mines that some union miners found themselves working at. The strike was described as U.M.W. President John L. Lewis's "last ditch effort to organize Eastern Kentucky."
Union President John L. Lewis refused on the grounds that the industry was undergoing a needed adjustment which, when completed, would result in fewer men and fewer mines and a stable, more prosperous industry. [1] The coal mining area around Pittsburgh had always been a difficult territory for the UMWA.