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Sheryl Poths shared a link to the group: Labour History & Music.
John L. Lewis was born February 12th 1880, to Welsh immigrant parents in the coal mining camp of Cleveland, Iowa- one mile East of Lucas, Iowa. He began working in the Big Hill Coal Mine in Lucas, IA as a teenager, joining the UMWA Local #799 in 1990. Lucas was a pony coal mining town. This part of South Central Iowa is quiet beautiful... very very hilly with the Stephens Forest Area nearby and the Mormon Trail just a little further south. Lucas is on Amtrak so the coal trains out of Wyoming and the western states run through on a daily basis.