"Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born."
Lewis, president of the Mine Workers, walked away from the American Federation of Labor on this date in 1935 to lead the newly-formed Committee for Industrial Organization. The CIO and the unions created under its banner organized six million industrial workers over the following decade.
Lewis, president of the Mine Workers, walked away from the American Federation of Labor on this date in 1935 to lead the newly-formed Committee for Industrial Organization. The CIO and the unions created under its banner organized six million industrial workers over the following decade.