Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969

Variant names
Dates:
Birth 1880-02-12
Death 1969-06-11
Birth 1967
Birth 1880
Death 1969
Americans
English, English,

Biographical notes:

John L. Lewis was born in Lucas, Iowa in 1880. From 1917 until his death in 1969 he served the United Mine Workers of America, acting as its president from 1920 to 1960. Lewis led in the establishment of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and served as CIO president until his resignation from that post in 1940.

From the description of Papers, 1879-1969. [microform] (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64091529

From its founding in 1935 until 1942, the history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was inseparable from that of John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). Lewis created the CIO as an organization, and he used the manpower and treasury of the UMWA to keep the CIO alive. The early history of the CIO was also greatly influenced by the relationship between Lewis and Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1935, the CIO devoted the bulk of its assets and energies to Roosevelt's re-election campaign. Roosevelt's victory in 1936 set the stage for the CIO's triumph over General Motors and United States Steel in early 1937. As the Lewis-Roosevelt relationship began to cool in 1937, the CIO lost ground to the AFL, Lewis resigned as president of the CIO in 1940, and the UMWA left the CIO two years after that.

From the description of The CIO files of John L. Lewis [microform] : part II, general files on the CIO and AFL, 1929-1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122682294

John L. Lewis was born in Lucas, Iowa in 1880. From 1917 until his death in 1969 he served the United Mine Workers of America, acting as its president from 1920 to 1960.

From the description of John Llewellyn Lewis papers, 1879-1969 (inclusive), [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122556176

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Subjects:

  • Coal miners
  • Coal miners
  • Coal mines and mining
  • Coal strike, West Virginia, 1920-1921
  • Collective bargaining
  • Labor and laboring classes
  • Labor movement
  • Labor unions
  • Labor unions
  • Labor unions and communism
  • Miners
  • Coal miners
  • Labor unions

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  • Labor leaders
  • Miners

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  • VA, US
  • IA, US
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Appalachian Region (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)

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