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The Supreme Court ruled that the law was illegal. But another law, the Wagner Labor Relations Act of nineteen-thirty-five, helped labor unions to increase their power. Most of the leaders of America 's traditional labor unions were slow to understand their new power. They were conservative men. They represented workers with certain skills, such as wood workers or metal workers. They did little to organize workers with other kinds of skills. But a new group of labor leaders used the new laws to organize unions by industries, not by skills. They believed that workers would have much more power if they joined forces with other workers in the same factory to make common demands. These new leaders began to organize unions for the automobile industry, the steel industry, and other major industries. The leader of the new movement was the head of the mine workers, John L. Lewis. Lewis was a powerful leader with a strong body and strong opinions. He had begun to work in the coal mines at the age of twelve. Lewis rose to become a powerful and successful leader of the mine workers. But he was concerned about workers in other industries as well