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> On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote:
>> ...the vast majority of workers who fought to build unions were
>> native-born Americans, often from the Midwest and the South, as were
>> their leaders like Powderly, Parsons, Debs, Haywood, Lewis, the
>> Reuthers, etc...
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> John L. Lewis was Welsh.
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He was born in Lucas, Iowa. His parents had emigrated from Wales.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Lewis
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/lewis.cfm
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/lewis.cfm
http://www.iowaaflcio.org/john_l__lewis.htm
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1625.html
Etc.