LABOR: Lewis and the Champ

To Franklin Roosevelt the hulking form of John L. Lewis is like an ominous figure in a recurrent bad dream. This week the dream and the figure were back again in their most nightmarish aspect. With a coal strike threatened next weekend, John Lewis had once again maneuvered the President of the U.S. into a head-to-head personal fight.

For seven weeks John L. and the mine operators have presented the nation with their usual spring show, war or no war. To outsiders the show seemed to follow the routine peacetime patterns: offers,...

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