John L. Lewis: leader of labor, by Cecil Carnes

Robert Speller, 1936-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No DJ. Hardcover, Stated First Edition 1936 Robert Speller 331 pages. Very Good, lacking the DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear to black cloth boards with silver titles - 2 small corner bumps. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked. Deckled edges. Blank bookplate on inside front cover. 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, during the Great Depression. After resigning as head of the CIO in 1941, Lewis took the United Mine Workers out of the CIO in 1942 and in 1944 took the union into the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Lewis was a Republican, but he played a major role in helping Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt win a landslide victory for the US Presidency in 1936. He was an isolationist, and broke with Roosevelt in 1940 on FDR's anti-Nazi foreign policy. Lewis was an effective, aggressive fighter and strike leader who gained high wages for his membership while steamrolling over his opponents, including the United States government. 22 chapters, 16 illustrations and index. Very respectable First Edition with plenty of life left in it.LOC SSS-20