This post is an update to #576 the John L. Lewis nativity. Here we will be checking our rectification against a known mundane event. From the Sunday Wilkes Barre Gazette on June 4, 1949 the article is about a firebug trying to set John L. Lewis's home on fire. Since the Lewis family was out... Continue Reading →
#576 God Bless America & John L. Lewis
John Llewellyn Lewis was a coal miner and son of coal miners who became an American labour leader & president of the United Mine Workers of America (1920–60). He was also the chief founder and first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO; 1936–40), now part of the AFL-CIO. He left school in the... Continue Reading →