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Illinois Miners Work for Unity
Mitchell, James P. | November 20, 1935 issue

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The success of the four-day bituminous coal strike has completely changed the face of the union situation for the Illinois coal miners. One of its most significant results will probably be the unity of the coal miners in the United Mine Workers of America. There is every possibility that before many weeks the Progressive Miners of America will have ended the dual unionism, which has divided Illinois miners since the militant but incomplete upsurge of 1933, when the rebel organization was formed in the midst of official thuggery. Union leader John L. Lewis carried through the negotiations that won for the miners what amounts to a 10 per cent increase both in tonnage and in daily rates.

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MINERAL industries; STRIKES & lockouts; COAL miners; COAL trade; LABOR unions; LEWIS, John Llewellyn, 1880-1969; ILLINOIS; UNITED States
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