All hope of a reconciliation in the Aue. 7 ranks of American labour vanished to-day when Mr. John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers of America and guiding spirit of the Committee for Industrial Organization, said he regarded "final" the action of the American Federation of Labour in suspending him and nine associates of the C.LO.
Although the procedure of the Federation allows a thirty-day period for suspended members to make their peace with the organization, Mr. Lewis said he had no intention of re-opening the case, He added that the was accelerating his drive for 3,000,000 new members of the Committee for Industrial Organiza tion-—United Press.
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