United Mine Workers of America - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

A president of this union criticized FDR for his callous response to the Little Steel strike despite earlier being one of his largest donors. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this union led by John Llewellyn (“loo-ELL-in”) Lewis, who enforced strikes during World War II. In 1914, strikers tried joining this union before being attacked by guards of the CF&I.

ANSWER: United Mine Workers of America [or UMWA]

[10e] Lewis was instrumental in splitting the Congress of Industrial Organizations, or CIO, from this other labor union led by George Meany and founded by Samuel Gompers.

ANSWER: AFL [or American Federation of Labor; accept AFL-CIO]

[10m] The AFL-CIO’s anti-corruption push led to conflict with David Beck, who succeeded this man. This man’s death, presumably outside Detroit, likely occurred after meeting with Anthony Giacalone and Anthony Provenzano.

ANSWER: Jimmy Hoffa [or James Riddle Hoffa]

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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	3.33	0%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	67%	67%	17%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	67%	50%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	17.50	75%	50%	50%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	14.00	70%	70%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	17.50	88%	75%	13%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%

Data


UCF C	Florida B	0	0	0	0
UCF B	Florida State A	0	0	10	10
Valencia A	Florida A	0	0	0	0
Minnesota B	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
Winona State	Wisconsin A	0	10	10	20
UW A	Alberta	0	10	10	20
UBC	UW B	0	10	10	20
Kenyon	Carnegie Mellon B	0	10	10	20
Carnegie Mellon A	Case Western A	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan State	10	0	10	20
Case Western B	Ohio State B	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	UNC B	0	10	0	10
Virginia A	UNC C	0	10	10	20
UNC D	Liberty A	0	0	0	0
William & Mary	Wake Forest	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Wisconsin B	0	10	0	10
BU	Tufts A	0	0	0	0
Brandeis A	Harvard B	0	10	10	20
Brown A	Brandeis B	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth A	MIT A	0	0	0	0
Harvard A	UMass Boston	10	10	10	30
Georgetown A	Notre Dame A	10	10	10	30
Stanford B	Georgetown B	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame B	Northwestern A	0	10	10	20
Northwestern B	Notre Dame C	0	10	10	20
Iowa	Purdue	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Alabama A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Southampton B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge D	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Oxford C	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	George Washington A	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A	Haverford A	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Haverford B	0	10	10	20
Yale A	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
RIT A	RIT B	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Michigan D	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Michigan C	0	10	10	20
Duke	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
South Carolina	Liberty C	10	10	10	30
Chicago A	Illinois A	0	10	10	20
Missouri	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Louisville A	Bruin A	10	0	10	20
Bristol	Oxford A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Manchester	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	Southampton A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge E	Warwick A	0	0	0	0
NYU C	Durham	0	10	10	20
LSE	Sheffield	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Penn B	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	NYU B	0	0	10	10
John Jay College	George Washington B	10	10	10	30
Maryland A	Maryland B	0	10	10	20
Binghamton A	ESF A	0	0	10	10
Cornell D	Cornell C	0	10	10	20