John L. Lewis Quotes

Labor Was Marching Toward The Goal Of Industrial Democracy And Contributing Constructively Toward A More Rational Arrangement Of Our Domestic Economy.

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.

In The Steel Industry The Corporations Generally Have Accepted Collective Bargaining And Negotiated Wage Agreements With The Committee For Industrial Organization.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Out Of The Agony And Travail Of Economic America The Committee For Industrial Organization Was Born.

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.