Leonine John Lewis, still king in the jungle of U.S. collieries, made a regal gesture toward the nation. Although he had once disclaimed all responsibility for the soft coal strike (TIME, Oct. 22), at another time had called it a "lockout," the wave of his imperious paw somehow brought it to an end.
The gesture, which sent some 210,000 miners back to work after four weeks of idleness and a 13,000,000-ton loss of coal production, was made with a fitting air of preoccupied charity. He simply told his United Mine Workers that demands for recognition of their foremen's unionbasis of the strikewould...
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