"It Must Not Happen Again"
Newspaper advertisement
By: West Virginia Coal Association
Date: October 21, 1945
Source: "It Must Not Happen Again." Advertisement published in the Herald-Advertiser, October 21, 1945, as cited in U.S. House Committee on Military Affairs. Repeal of War Labor Disputes Act. Hearings before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, 79th Cong., 1st sess. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1945, 45–46.
About the Organization: The West Virginia Coal Association spoke for the interests of the coal mine owners and operators engaged in long-standing, bitter labor disputes with the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA). The UMWA was led by its charismatic and combative president, John L. Lewis.
Introduction
The immediate pre–World War II era witnessed the most violent and widespread, yet effective, series of strikes in...
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