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Labor is marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.

— John L. Lewis Labor and the Nation speech (1937)

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Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

Labor and the Nation speech (1937)

If there is to be peace in our industrial life, let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.

Labor and the Nation speech (1937)

It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace.

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.

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