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John L. Lewis
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John L. Lewis
John Llewellyn Lewis
(February 12, 1880 – June 11, 1969) was an American leader of
organized labor
who served as president of the
United Mine Workers of America
(UMW) from 1920 to 1960. A major player in the
history of coal mining
, he was the driving force behind the founding of the
Congress of Industrial Organizations
(CIO), which established the
United Steel Workers of America
and helped organize millions of other industrial workers in the 1930s. After resigning as head of the CIO in 1941, he took the Mine Workers out of the CIO in 1942 and in 1944 took the union into the
American Federation of Labor
(AFL).
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