Meyer Bernstein

In September 1932, he entered Cornell University on a competitive state scholarship and graduated with a degree in economics in 1936.

[8] In 1938, Lee Pressman, general counsel of the Congress of Industrial Organizations CIO) as well as of SWOC (a CIO member) sent Bernstein into the field with A. W. Smith, a deputy general counsel to research hiring and firing patterns among "Little Steel."

[1][2][3][5][7][9][10] During World War II, he served as U.S. Army Air Corps sergeant.

[6][7] In 1972, he joined the Labor Department to help observe a rerun of a 1969 United Mine Workers (UMW) election.

"[6] Later in 1972, he became director of the Public and International Affairs Department of the UMW just as Arnold Miller succeeded W. A. Boyle as the union's president.