U.S. LABOUR LEADER ATTACKS TRUMAN: ‘UNFIT FOR OFFICE’
NEW YORK, October 5. “Mr Truman is totally unfit for the Presidential office,” said Mr John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, at the union’s annual conference at Cincinnati! toMr Lewis added: “Mr Truman s principles are elastic. He is careless with the truth. He has no special knowledge of anything. He is a malignant, scheming sort of individual, who is dangerous not. only to the United Mine Workers, but also to the United Slates. “It devolves upon you to decide whether he is to be the future President," said Mr Lewis, and 2900 dele<mtes representing 600,000 members, shouted “No.” They applauded almost every critical reference made io Mr Truman during Mr Lewis’s speech. _ , , Mr Lewis said that Mr Truman had prosecuted the union twice for striking and had recommended fines totalling 2,130,000 dollars. “Because ho was’too cowardly to send me to Lewis made no reference to the Republican candidate. Mr Thomas Dewey. ______________
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 October 1948, Page 7
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