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John L. Lewis
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John L. Lewis

“But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic.”

- John L. Lewis

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John L. Lewis

“In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.”

- John L. Lewis

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John L. Lewis

“Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.”

- John L. Lewis

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John L. Lewis

“Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.”

- John L. Lewis

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John L. Lewis

“The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.”

- John L. Lewis

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John L. Lewis

“The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.”

- John L. Lewis

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John L. Lewis

“The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.”

- John L. Lewis

Source/Notes: Labor and the Nation speech in Washington, D.C. (September 3, 1937)
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John L. Lewis

“The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.”

- John L. Lewis

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John L. Lewis

“The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.”

- John L. Lewis

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John L. Lewis

“The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.”

- John L. Lewis

Source/Notes: Labor and the Nation speech in Washington, D.C. (September 3, 1937)
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John L. Lewis

“This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.”

- John L. Lewis

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John L. Lewis

“Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.”

- John L. Lewis

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“While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.”

- John L. Lewis

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John L. Lewis

“No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor, or divert its purpose to play its natural and rational part in the development of the economic, political and social life of our nation.”

- John L. Lewis

Source/Notes: Labor and the Nation speech in Washington, D.C. (September 3, 1937)
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