5/10/2023 0 Comments John L. Lewis by Robert H. ZiegerPerforming a similar role for Philip Murray, Lewis's successor, Pressman guided the new labor federation through the perils of wartime labor policy and the turbulent post-war economic reconversion. Lewis's legal strategist during the CIO's successful campaign to unionize the mass production industries in the United States in the 1930s. labor law, and to the history of the New Deal–Fair Deal era. This book chronicles Pressman's fascinating public life and examines his contributions to the rebirth of the American labor movement, to the development of U. Working among the movers and shapers of American politics, he was also one of the most highly-placed, though covert, adherents of communism in public life during the New Deal–Fair Deal years. As the nation's most prominent labor lawyer during a period of ascending labor power, Lee Pressman served as General Counsel of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1933 to 1948.
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