Loud in the land last fortnight was the voice of John L. Lewis, telling off Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, Feb. 5). Last week it was John Lewis' turn to hear voices, welling up to him from the floor of the United Mine Workers of America convention in Columbus. Delegate Robert Gould of Fredericktown, Pa. had a telegram from home: ". . . Local Union 688, with a membership of 750, wish to protest the speech of John L. Lewis attacking the Honorable President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democratic Party." Local Union 2399 in...
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