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was with people of experience, like John Lewis and Sidney Hillman, who were not just fly-by-nights in the automobile business. John Lewis hadn't had anything to do with the auto workers, but as head of the United Mine Workers he had been a member of the Committee on Industrial Organization of the AF of L. When they finally walked out of the AF of L, he was the head of the Council of Industrial Organizations, the CIO. He and Hillman had the two strongest unions in the CIO - strongest because they were the oldest and most experienced. John Lewis's stock was very high all through the USA at about this time. He was very well thought of. Pieces had been written about him. Magazine articles called him a new type of labor leader. This probably sprang in some measure from Hugh Johnson's admiration of him, and Hugh Johnson's continuous admiration of him. He did work very well with Johnson of the NRA. Lewis was all around in the NRA. He was on the labor advisory committee, and one of its most useful members. He became very well acquainted at that time with an awful lot of industrialists that he had never met before, indsutrialists outside of the coal industry. The people in the coal industry vouche dfor his honorableness, that he would always keep his word. The article that was written about him