The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-12-13
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS Il
.
By LEMUEL r. PARTON

| M EW IOnh. - ALSO puiky ana
- muscular, but less belligerent
than John L. Lewis, his predecessor
In Office as president Of c. l. O.,
Murray Of cIO r. ray. 1 He m IS Of
SiiOer Tongued; Scottish de-
Checks Hard Fist scent and
therefore Civ
en- to fewer words than Mr.. Lewis,
and has been q powerful offstage
figure In the sensational rise of the
c. I. 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 q
negotiator and labor pacifier for
three Presidents. President Wilson
made him a member of his War
Labor board. In 1921, President
Harding used him to sidetrack q
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 con-
ference, 'for the establishment Of
orderly industrial relations"
In his native Lanarkshire,
Scotland, ne was a breaker boy
In the mines. He arrived In
| 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 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 n0se-punching started
his career as labor leader.
The miners made him president
of their newly organized local Of
/ the United Mine Workers of
| America, at the age of Is.
He educated himself by corre-
spondence course and now he is q
master of fawless 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 a bit of the old
| Scottish burr on his tongue, and de-
L ~, Tn
behalf of his organization, he has
pledged labor's full cooperation in
defense. He is married and has 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
Allen White
] Gufzon Borglurn, Committee to
Sculptor, a Man Defend Amer
OF Varied r alenfs lea by Aiding
the Allies.
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 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 up,
his mOuntain-side Abraham Lin
coin would be 465 feet tall. He's
| never SO happy as when he has
| q steam shovel for chiseI and
q carload Of dynamite for NAL
let. He has hair-trigger tenn
per, riding any big political cy-
clone that may happen to kick
MP. His first attempt at gargan-
tuan mountain carving, for the
i Confederate memorial at Stone
! Mountain, Ga, broke up in a
row, In which models and plans
| were 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
L 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 array and
navy are working out hemisphere
defense. He is chief of the war