Tag: Labor Unions

Biograph: John Llewellyn Lewis was a coal miner and son of coal miners who became an American labour leader & president of the United Mine Workers of America (1920–60). He was also the chief founder and first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO; 1936–40), now part of the AFL-CIO. Mapping John L John […]

Tom Mooney, baptized Thomas Joseph Mooney, was born Dec. 8, 1882, in Chicago, Illinois. A second generation coal miner, Tom became a galvanizing Socialist union organizer, a tireless activist who convicted of murder and then pardoned. Industrial Workers of the World Mooney became committed to Socialist politics after several trips to Europe and joined the […]

John Llewellyn Lewis was a coal miner and son of coal miners who became an American labour leader & president of the United Mine Workers of America (1920–60). He was also the chief founder and first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO; 1936–40), now part of the AFL-CIO.