John Llewellyn Lewis
John Llewellyn Lewis 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).
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Date of Birth
February 12nd, 1880
Age
146
Birth Place
United States of America, Iowa
Date of Death
June 11st, 1969
Died Aged
89
Star Sign
Aquarius
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