POSTSCRIPT ABOUT JOHN L. LEWIS and US LABOR

As an additional postscript, afterthought or continuum from where I left off yesterday towards the bottom of my post regarding the above subject matter, I thought I would add a few more links.
Maybe, also, as a personal antidote to the depressing, demoralizing, human effluvia, garbage surrounding me now.

So, here is further, 1935 vintage footage with Mineworkers Union President, John L. Lewis, and other labor leaders, regarding their HISTORIC decision to SPLIT off, separate, the CIO from the AFL.
If you look on the right hand sidebar of the youtube link you will see their reunion 20 years later, 1955, which, to all intents and purposes, set its subsequent pattern and purpose as that of the AFL-CIA:

HERE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IsJZAknuIQ&feature=channel

Then, I thought I would provide for anyone totally and completely unfamiliar with and ignorant of US labor history, just one reference as somewhere, a place, to start, begin out of VOLUMINOUS, dense material available, namely, Philip Foner.
Here is a wiki snapshot regarding Foner.
They do NOT mention below Foner also guest lectured at East Berlin's Humboldt University in the 1980s:

HERE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Foner

And, here is an excerpt of an online book I found, "Alexander Von Humboldt, A Metabiography," Page 129, mentioning Phil Foner at East Berlin's Humboldt University:

HERE

http://books.google.com/books?id=_fXXRzidVKMC&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=humboldt+university,+philip+foner&source=bl&ots=zEzMXN8_0k&sig=SQSgjCdwrpq9piA3caIoBBi7GzQ&hl=en&ei=7Vq3S5WMPIH88AabyIiVCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=humboldt%20university%2C%20philip%20foner&f=false

So, that is all for today's brief entry.
And, refer back to my post below...