“I have pleaded (labor's) case, not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of the captain of a mighty host, demanding the rights to which free men are entitled.” MenVoiceCasesRightsLaborAskingToneHostEntitledCaptainsFree ManAlms 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
“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.” MenMadeHomeRightsProgressBloodFrontsHe ManIndustryLaborIntelligentDefensePermanentGasHostElsewhereSteelAdvancingSteel Industry Author:John L. Lewis
