The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak. — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
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… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
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… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak. — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
