that's john l. lewis. does anyone know what i'm talking about when john l. lewis punch the carpenter -- head. this was the famous human industrial unions came into power and they wanted to draw how frightening it was. you can see lewis is very tall. it's a wonderful man to draw because he was so big and interesting. this is a display of union power subsequent to the passing of the act. this was a simple page where we apply the sumner idea. and cartoon cartoons you need to give readers breaks. which is different from print books. one more thing, the way his convey narrative. i think what i learned from paul in doing this book is enough to tell the stories one at a time. there's a famous case in the new deal called schecter. schechter poultry, right? the schecter's work chicken butchers in the government came, right in brooklyn. do you know them? we can talk. [laughter] they broke the rules of one of the national recovery administration codes and they were prosecuted and targeted sort of like al capone. the administration was at pains to demonstrate the constit

that's john l. lewis. does anyone know what i'm talking about when john l. lewis punched the car carpenters' unin head? that was a famous scene when the industrial unions came into power, and we wanted to draw how frightening it was, you know? so this, you can see lewis is very tall. he's a wonderful man to draw because he was so big and interesting. this is sort of a display of union power subsequent to passage of the wagner act. this is a simple page where we replied that sumner idea of who the forgotten man is. i think in cartoons you need to give readers breaks which is different from print books, and i'm just going to show you one more thing. the question of how do you convey narrative, i have narrative all over the place. i think what i learned from paul and in doing this book is you have to tell the stories one at a time. there was a fake case in the new deal -- famous case in the new deal called scheckter. scheckter poultry, right? little chicken butchers, and the -- >> [inaudible] >> right. and -- right. in brooklyn. do you know them? >> [inaudible]

john l. lewis, the great coal mine leader, came from iowa, not from west virginia or the chairman's state, from pennsylvania. but in those days they had nothing. i mean, they worked underground, and they just, they had nothing. and so they all had what they -- they didn't call it miner's lung -- they didn't call it black lung. i never heard that until we came here, but we always called it miner's cough, miner's lung. that's just what they had. they might not have been totally disabled but, boy, their lives were not worth very much in terms of what they could do physically as they reached into their 50s, 60s, 70s. ages. so i'm glad that we got the rule out. secondly, the chairman hit upon the backlog of cases, but i also want to know what the department basically -- you touched on that, mr. lu, in your testimony. how we're leveling the playing field. a lot of times these minders don't have a lot -- miners don't have a lot of money, they don't have adequate come. they file their claim, it goes to dr.

tone here to make sure that plaque liblack l respected and that those people to the right of peaceful assembly are protected as well. >> representative john lewissked for the national guard to be present. he wasn't asking for more militarization and sense of what we are current bely seeing and they had to call kennedy and johnson to protect from the white, racist citizens as well as local officials. so the call for a stronger federal presence both in terms of the national guard and also, it's these individual cases on their own are horrific, but over the last year, much less last two years and the last history of american criminalization of black youth, this is a cumulative effect and so what i think people are -- i hope we don't lose sight of the fact of the numbers of young black people piling up is not just a tragedy, but at this point it'sit's a huge problem for american democracy and back to fdr and his refusal to pass the lynching bill, and i would hope that this is not seen as obama's legacy on race, but i think it's up to us citizens and ultimately the president of the united states to figure out what his legacy on race will be and what