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...Coshocton Boy. Headquarters of the A. F. of L. is a seven-story brick-&-limestone building in an unpretentious section of Washington at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and 9th Street. The slow elevators, the middle-aged employes give the place the atmosphere of an old government bureau. Outside in the sun on benches flanking the entrance sit visiting unionists waiting to buttonhole their leaders as they leave the building. On the top floor in a corner office protected by two women secretaries sits William Green. Among his books are such correspondence school volumes as Training of the Voice, Analysis...
...Born in Coshocton, Ohio, in 1873, he followed his British father into the coal mines at 18, soon spied a shorter road to success in the new United Mine Workers. By the Century's turn he was a sub-district president, later Ohio district president, by 1912 Union secretary-treasurer. Meantime he had served two terms in the Ohio Senate, where, as Democratic floor leader, he gained a reputation as a labor liberal. Up to the time John L. Lewis helped boost him into the A. F. of L. presidency, the most conspicuous ability he had demonstrated...
Forty-six years ago, 18-year-old Billy Green put aside his school books at small Coshocton, Ohio and went down into the inky bowels of the Morgan Run Coal Mine to make a living. Like 50 other miners who dug Morgan Run coal, he soon carried a United Mine Workers card in his overalls. When Morgan Run coal was exhausted in 1922, Billy Green was one of the few members of the Morgan Run local who was not thrown out of work. Billy had gone above ground some 20 years before and was rapidly climbing...
Last November President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, who had come up from the mines to become William Green's great foe as leader of the Committee for Industrial Organization, delivered a grave insult to Coshocton's most famed son. He impudently ordered William Green to show cause why he should not be expelled from the U. M. W. (TIME, Nov. 22). Realizing that under union rules they could try Billy Green if John L. Lewis pressed his expulsion order, the Morgan Run unionists became more interested in their local than they had been...
...presidency of the A. F. of L., for a man must hold a union membership card to be an officer. In practice it was little more than an insult, for it would be several months before Mr. Green could be tried and finally ousted by his original union in Coshocton, Ohio. Meanwhile, he has ample opportunity to join another A. F. of L. union, in fact is already an honorary member of the musicians' union...