On labor front.

• Position: THE 1930S FLASHBACK - United Mine Workers of America chief John L. Lewis' views on the thirty-hour week bill - Brief article

February 9, 1935

Organized labor has begun an aggressive fight to obtain enactment in Congress of a compulsory thirty-hour week bill into law.

John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers of America chief, said, "Eighteen million stomachs clash against backbones. The handwriting is on the wall. There is...