“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.” PlayPoliticalPurposeNationsSocialNaturalEconomicDevelopmentLaborPaidRationalCorporationsHatsMarchSocial LifeGeeseTinScoundrelsBabblingVigilante Author: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.” PoliticalNationsSocialWaitingRightsEconomicIndustryFairsTiredWorkersCorporateTreatmentGrantsAgonyAlleviatePolitical RightsTired Of Waiting Author:John L. Lewis
“Increased interest and participation by labor in the affairs of government should make for economic and political stability in the future. Labor has a constitutional and statutory right to participate.” ShouldGovernmentPoliticalInterestEconomicLaborAffairStabilityParticipationLabor Movement Author: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.” HeartPoliticalPurposeSocialMoralMillionsSupportEconomicMembersOrganizationObjectivesJustificationCommittees Author:John L. Lewis