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Show FORMER PRESIDENT " IEVIS AGAIN A MINER aaaaaawaaaawjswaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa V WASHINGTON', W.Va., May IT. "I aerer felt better ia mj Ufa. Of course lama little sore after aot having dose any hard physical labor for Dfteea year, but thing will eome to me as easy as ever in a few day,'' aaid Thomas L. Lewis, formerly president of the United Mine Worker of America, yesterday. x ",, Lewie went "baek to " the miaea. last Thursday, after having held ofnee ia the miners' organization for four teea veers three rears as secretary of the "lhio Miner, eight years as vice president of the United Mine Workers of America and three years a president presi-dent of that organisation. The miners former president has as hi partner In the Wheeling treek mine, near his home, at Bridgeport. O.. where he is now employed, fevl Priee. with whom he waa paired when he left the mines fifteen years ago. "ily werkj as a miner ia eertainly easier "thsn mv work as president of the miners. " said Lewis. "A presi-. dent I worked fifteen hours a day. Now I work eight boors and my day' work ia done, sad I ran pick rnal aa well today aa I to a Id dfteea years age-Lewi age-Lewi denied the report from Colom bus thst he -weald be a eandidat for president of the Ohio miner. . He say he is aot a raadidate for aay .flee. |