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Organize is the watchword from white maned labor icon
In a rare posthumous style interview with Associated Press Labor Writer Neil Gilbride, former United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis urges a new organizing drive amid concerns about unorganized 30 million white collar and 30 million blue collar workers. He recalls battles with unions, politics, and presidents, and comments on the AFL-CIO’s 1953 Teamsters expulsion and labor’s political role.
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Neil Gilbride
Washington
Jonn L. Lewis
Lewis
Afl-Cio
Teamster
Teamsters
White House
Mine Workers
W.A
Tony” Boyle
John L. Lewis
Associates Press
United Mine Workers
Johnson
Mie
Lyndon B. Johnson
Barry Goldwater
Organized Labor
Franklin 2D. Roosevelt