Lewis versus Howat: An Analysis of Labor Rhetoric, Education, and Class Privilege in Early Twentieth Century Mining Politics

Annotation 7

Due to desperate circumstances in District 2, Alexander Howat emerged as an opponent of what people began to consider a corrupted John L. Lewis. Newspapers stated that Lewis, “seems to have the support of the majority of miners in his section.” The formal settlement of the 1919 strike left many issues unresolved for the Indiana county coal miners leading to continued problems in the future.

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