NOUN
- United States labor leader who was president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960 and president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1935 to 1940 (1880-1969)
How To Use John L. Lewis In A Sentence
- I am talking about labor agitators who feed and fatten and thrive on the deliberate creation of discord and discontent and strife -- who live only by provoking disputes, where no reason for dispute exists -- and their chief "high priest", Mr. John L. Lewis, who denied coal to our steel mills because portal-to-portal pay was more important than the lives of our sons. A Business Man Speaks Up
- United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis called it a "slave labor" law.
