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...marked the high point of Leader Lewis' career. Undoubtedly he, a hidebound Republican, could never have achieved this success if it had not been for a Democratic President whose New Deal had turned Industry and Labor topsy-turvy. But his foresight and energy in organizing coal miners under NRA, his ironhanded persistence in negotiating a union coal code with non-union operators, marked him as Labor's man-of-the-hour. A ragged broken band were United Mine Workers before March 4. They claimed 300,000 members but of these probably less than half paid dues. From field...
President Lewis' personal triumph at the Shoreham Hotel last week tended to overshadow these old familiar charges. Right or wrong in his past tactics, he had been quick enough, shrewd enough, dogged enough to squeeze the maximum benefits for his men from NRA. In three short months he had jacked U. M. W. out of disintegration and despair, energized it into the greatest single affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. He was the prime embodiment of Labor resurgent under the New Deal. As such he was prepared to stride into the A. F. of L. convention this week...
...over itself and to establish industrial freedom as a companion to our political freedom." Such shadow-boxing was only a foretaste of the A. F. of L. convention at which President Green was primed to denounce all those who dared to block Labor's advance as enemies of NRA, traitors to the U. S. Recovery Strikes- More serious than word warfare was the spread of A. F. of L.-sponsored strikes throughout the land. Completely forgotten was last summer's truce to which Mr. Green himself subscribed. These strikes were undertaken or threatened to: 1) force better codes...
...Commissioner of Education George Frederick Zook announced he was trying to get self-supporting college students (about half the total number in the U. S.) exempt from NRA restrictions...
...flattening out. Best buying was in the Midwest and on the Pacific Coast. Said D. & B.: ''No small part of the maintenance during the last few weeks of the headway made during the spring and summer months is attributable directly to the relentless enterprise of the NRA. . . . There has been no abatement in the rise of employment." Also released last week were figures on the output of two important consumer goods: U. S. factories in August produced 236,400 automobiles and trucks-an unseasonal increase of 3,300 over July and of 146,000 or 160% over August...