The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-12-13

than John L. Lewis, his predecessor
in office as president of G. l. O.,
Murray of CIO raw He is Of
SilUer Tongued; Scottish de-
Checks Hard Fist scent and
therefore Civ
en- to fewer words than Mr.. Lewis,
and has been powerful offstage
figure in the sensational rise of the
c. /. o. in the last four years.
Conservative labor opinion sees in
his selection an augury for improved
labor relations under the urgency of
our defense effort. He has been a
negotiator and labor pacifier for
three Presidents. President Wilson
made him member of his War
Labor board. In 1921, President
Harding used him to sidetrack
civil war in the West Virginia coal
fields, with 10000 miners in revolt.
President Roosevelt asked his CO.
operation in the successful adjust
ment of the threatened steel strike
Of March and April, 1887. He has
been hard-hitting foe of the left
wingers, both in the old craft union
ism and vertical unionism days.
A month ago, he wrote to Eugene G.
Grace, president of the Bethlehem
Steel corporation, proposing a con-
ference, "for the establishment of
orderly industrial relations"
In his native Lanarkshire,
Scotland, he was q breaker boy
I'M l.
America with his family when
he was 16 and went down In the
pit for the Keystone Coal and
Coke company In Westmoreland
county, Pa. He started q small
civil war when he punched the
weighmaster In the nose. That,
he has said many times, was
one OF his greatest mistakes.
Thereafter he kept his temper.
But the nose-punching started
his career as O labor leader.
The miners made him president
Of their newly organized local Of
the United Mine Workers of
America, at the age Of IL.
He educated himself by a CORE
spondence course and now he Ii q
master Of hawless grammar and
diction. Restraining his powerful fist
has not always been easy and he en-
joys vicarious milling as an eager
boxing fan. He Is silver-haired,
slow-spoken, with q bit Of the old
Scottish burr on his tongue, and de-
iberate in speech and action. In
behalf Of his organization, he has
pledged labor's full cooperation in
defense. He is married and has a 81
year-old son.
UTZON BORGLUM, 73-year-old
- sculptor, recently made the ra-
dio presentation Of awards In ma
tional poster contest of the William
Gutzon Borglun,, Committee to
Sculptor, a Man Defend Amer
OF Varied Talents lea by Aiding
the Allie 8.
Apparently taking this personally,
Adolf Hitler orders the destruction
Of Mr.. Borglum's statue Of Woodrow
Wilson in Posen, Poland. The Nazis
call it an artistic eyesore, with the
legs too short, the body too long
and the head too large"
They wouldn't talk that way to
his face. The big, knobby, Danish
American citizen once mixed with
Ruby Bob" Fitzsimmons, without
getting hurt. He is not only a sculp-
tor, but an amateur boxer-still
good for his age-a politician and
engineer, writer and a painter.
He likes a lot Of elbow room
In whatever he does and has
been having the time of his life
with his Black Hills sculptures
OF the Presidents. Standing M,
his mountain-side Abraham Lin
coin would be 465 feet tall. He's
never SO happy as when he has
steam shovel for q chIsel and
carload Of dynamite for a NAL
let. He has a hair-trigger tenn
per, riding any big political cy-
clone that may happen TO kick
up. His first attempt at gargan-
tuan mountain carving, for the
Confederate memorial at Stone
Mountain, Ga, broke up In a
row, in which models and plans
we're destroyed.
With a number of other distin-
guished artists he has been active in
the poster contest and has helped
stir public excitement over the COM
petition. Born in Idaho, he was edu-
Gated in Fremont and Omaha, Neb.,
and studied art in San Francisco
and Paris.
IN THE war-planning, which daily
takes on more and more of an
emergency aspect, whippy little
gray-moustached Gen. George ".
Strong Is the diplomat of the army.
His recent mission to Great Britain
is said to have yielded much basic
information on which the army and
navy are working out hemisphere
defense. He is chief of the war
plans division of the war depart
ment's general staff. General Strong
is one Of the few high-ranking army