Talk:John L. Lewis
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Lewis traded on the tremendous appeal that Roosevelt had with workers in those days, sending organizers into the coal fields to tell workers that "The President wants you to join the Union." The President in that case was Lewis, President of the UMWA, but if workers thought that it was Roosevelt, no real harm was done.
I'm not sure if that is entirely correct. Was it not the case that Roosevelt had signed into law the Wagner Act, giving workers the right to organize, which then prompted Lewis to use the phrase? To my knowledge when he said "President," he really meant FDR, since it was FDR who had signed the bill into law.
Daveman 84 05:22, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Removed a clumsy section at the end
I took out the "alternative views" section because it just seemed a bit tacked-on. Also, the points it brought up (Lewis was domineering and power-hungry) aren't even really underrepresented in the article as is.
I have no objection if someone wants to re-insert this info into an existing section (here's the text):
Alternate views: Although proclaimed by some as a great labor leader, others during the 1920s and 1930s believed him to be more interested in gaining personal power than advancing the cause of the miners themselves. This spawned the creation of competing unions such as the Progressive Mine Workers which was formed in Gillespie, Illinois in 1932.[citation needed]
I'm not trying to deemphasize these points (they're valid, of course)... but there's already some well-rounded views from all sides throughout the article.
Like I said... no problems with anyone who wants to insert these observations into the the existing article. Just looks real clumsy as its own section.Cadastral (talk) 21:00, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
