Labor leaders

Photo of John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, shaking hands with Cyrus S. Ching, Federal Mediation Director, prior to a luncheon where they discussed the pending miner's strike. Government officials had expressed fear that the soft coal strike might weaken the United States' position in the "cold war" against Russia. They are at the Carlton Hotel in Washington, D. C. From: Beth Gore.

John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, shown before the Senate Subcommittee of the Inter-State Foreign Commerce Committee. From: Beth Gore

John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers President, is shown talking with Senator Owen Brewster of Maine at the Senate Subcommittee hearing of the Inter-State Foreign Commerce Committee. From: Beth Gore

John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, has a grim look as he signed a wage contract with the Northern and Midwestern soft coal operators, which represented approximately 75% of the soft coal industry. From: Beth Gore

Photo of United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis talking with American Federation of Labor President William Green at the CIO-AFL unity meeting at the Statler Hotel in Washington, D.C. This meeting represents 13,000,000 worker members. From: Beth Gore

Senator Robert Taft of Ohio welcomes United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis to the Senate Labor Committee where Lewis testified that the effect of "recent intrusions" by the government, in its judicial, legislative and executive branches has been to "arrest collective bargaining the coal industry." From: Beth Gore.

United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis as he read to reporters his letter to members of the union ordering them to return to work. See also 99-703. From: Beth Gore

United Mine Workers chief John L. Lewis as he faced reporters in his headquarters after reading the letter ordering the members of his union back to work. He directed that the miners work until March 31, 1947 under the terms of the contract with the Government--the contract that Lewis had tried to terminate. From: Beth Gore

John L. Lewis as he read to reporters his letter to members of the United Mine Workers ordering them to return to work. Mr. Lewis told the newsmen he took this action on his own authority to give the United States Supreme Court time to deliberate on appeals from contempt convictions "free from public pressure superinduced by the hysteria and frenzy of an economic crisis." From: Beth Gore

United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis as he leaves court after hearing the verdict of a personal fine of $10,000 and a $3,500,000 fine for the United Mine Workers. From: Beth Gore