Meyer Lewis (75525032)
Suggested edit: MEYER LEWIS DIES; EX‐LABOR OFFICIAL
Aug. 2, 1976
Meyer L. Lewis, former Western director of the American Federation of Labor and then general manager of Tillie Lewis Foods, headed by Mrs. Lewis, whom he married in 1948, died Saturday night in New York Hospital‐Cornell Medical Center. He was 72 years old and lived in Stockton, Calif., where he had headed Overseas Marketing Company, an importing concern, since 1973.
Mr, Lewis, a native New Yorker educated at the University of Michigan and Louisiana State University, was an A.F.L. organizer and personal representative of its then president, William Green, when he was assigned in 1939 to establish a San Francisco headquarters for an 11‐state organizing drive.
He met the future Mrs. Lewis over a union organizing issue at her canning plant in Stockton. He joined the concern in 1941. It is now part of the Ogden Corporation, of which she is a director.
Surviving are his wife, who was born Myrtle Ehrlich in Brooklyn; two sons, Robert, of Palo Alto, Calif., and William, of Los Angeles; three brothers, three sisters and five grandchildren.
Contributor: Yvonne (46963285) • [email protected]
Suggested edit: MEYER LEWIS DIES; EX‐LABOR OFFICIAL
Aug. 2, 1976
Meyer L. Lewis, former Western director of the American Federation of Labor and then general manager of Tillie Lewis Foods, headed by Mrs. Lewis, whom he married in 1948, died Saturday night in New York Hospital‐Cornell Medical Center. He was 72 years old and lived in Stockton, Calif., where he had headed Overseas Marketing Company, an importing concern, since 1973.
Mr, Lewis, a native New Yorker educated at the University of Michigan and Louisiana State University, was an A.F.L. organizer and personal representative of its then president, William Green, when he was assigned in 1939 to establish a San Francisco headquarters for an 11‐state organizing drive.
He met the future Mrs. Lewis over a union organizing issue at her canning plant in Stockton. He joined the concern in 1941. It is now part of the Ogden Corporation, of which she is a director.
Surviving are his wife, who was born Myrtle Ehrlich in Brooklyn; two sons, Robert, of Palo Alto, Calif., and William, of Los Angeles; three brothers, three sisters and five grandchildren.
Contributor: Yvonne (46963285) • [email protected]
Meyer Lewis (75525032)
Suggested edit: MEYER LEWIS DIES; EX‐LABOR OFFICIAL
Aug. 2, 1976
Meyer L. Lewis, former Western director of the American Federation of Labor and then general manager of Tillie Lewis Foods, headed by Mrs. Lewis, whom he married in 1948, died Saturday night in New York Hospital‐Cornell Medical Center. He was 72 years old and lived in Stockton, Calif., where he had headed Overseas Marketing Company, an importing concern, since 1973.
Mr, Lewis, a native New Yorker educated at the University of Michigan and Louisiana State University, was an A.F.L. organizer and personal representative of its then president, William Green, when he was assigned in 1939 to establish a San Francisco headquarters for an 11‐state organizing drive.
He met the future Mrs. Lewis over a union organizing issue at her canning plant in Stockton. He joined the concern in 1941. It is now part of the Ogden Corporation, of which she is a director.
Surviving are his wife, who was born Myrtle Ehrlich in Brooklyn; two sons, Robert, of Palo Alto, Calif., and William, of Los Angeles; three brothers, three sisters and five grandchildren.
Contributor: Yvonne (46963285) • [email protected]
Suggested edit: MEYER LEWIS DIES; EX‐LABOR OFFICIAL
Aug. 2, 1976
Meyer L. Lewis, former Western director of the American Federation of Labor and then general manager of Tillie Lewis Foods, headed by Mrs. Lewis, whom he married in 1948, died Saturday night in New York Hospital‐Cornell Medical Center. He was 72 years old and lived in Stockton, Calif., where he had headed Overseas Marketing Company, an importing concern, since 1973.
Mr, Lewis, a native New Yorker educated at the University of Michigan and Louisiana State University, was an A.F.L. organizer and personal representative of its then president, William Green, when he was assigned in 1939 to establish a San Francisco headquarters for an 11‐state organizing drive.
He met the future Mrs. Lewis over a union organizing issue at her canning plant in Stockton. He joined the concern in 1941. It is now part of the Ogden Corporation, of which she is a director.
Surviving are his wife, who was born Myrtle Ehrlich in Brooklyn; two sons, Robert, of Palo Alto, Calif., and William, of Los Angeles; three brothers, three sisters and five grandchildren.
Contributor: Yvonne (46963285) • [email protected]
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