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 L has a natural disposition of Saturn in the common sign of Virgo, and one that is also associated with digging and tireless working, in the tenth house where Saturn rules. That makes both the sign and the house earth based, which was true as…
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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 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) aka the Wobblies. Their motto One Big Union was a jab at the two unions dominating the United States at the time: the AFL (for trade unions) and the CIO (for unskilled unions). The AFL-CIO did not merge until…
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Uncategorized#576 God Bless America & John L. Lewis
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.
