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. — 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
