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Booted from the UMWA in 1926 by John L. Lewis, John Brophy remained outside the American labor movement until Lewis (standing in the middle) brought him back again in 1933. After formation of the Committee for Industrial Organizations in 1935, Brophy served as its first executive director during its first great organizing campaigns. He would remain an important figure in the CIO national office for the next twenty years.
