June 11 - Death of an Icon
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June 11 - Death of an Icon

2020-06-11

On this day in Labor History the year was 1969. That was the day that labor leader John L. Lewis died. Born to a Welsh-American Coal mining family in Iowa, Lewis became the leading champion of industrial unionism in the 1930s. 

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