A Third Labor Movement?

Labor's divided house may subdivide, at any minute. A third big labor group seems on the way. Shaggy John L. Lewis, miners' boss, who led the revolt against A.F. of L. five and a half years ago and became boss of C.I.O. is just about ready to shake himself loose again.

Observers, long expecting this move, saw its beginning last week in Illinois, where three Lewis sub-chieftains suddenly withdrew from the State's federation of C.I.O. unions. One of them was Ray Edmundson, C.I.O. regional director, who declared: "Hereafter I shall devote every ounce of energy at my command [to] . . . Lewis, whom I consider one of the greatest labor leaders of all time."

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