In one of the loudest and brashest performances of his whole career John L. Lewis this week defied the President of the U.S. All his long, pent-up hatred of Franklin Roosevelt boiling over, John Lewis, like an angry, ranting, old-style tragedian, flatly rejected requests made in the name of his country.
After Lewis had decreed a strike of 53,000 miners in the soft-coal fields, after the President had made two mild, well-mannered pleas for peace, Lewis summoned newsmen to the elegant boardroom of the United Mine Workers to hear his great defiance.
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