All John L. Lewis Quotes
- The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined… Acceptance
- Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog. Bird
- 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. Constant
- 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,… Alien
- Increased interest and participation by labor in the affairs of government should make for economic and political stability in the future. Labor has a constitutional… Affair
- 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… Adding
- 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… Committee
- Courage is not how a man stands or falls, but how he gets back up again Courage
- The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak. Help
- The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its… Baby
- Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy. Arrangement
- 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… Advancing
- 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… Alien
- Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them,… All
- 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… American
- If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree… Degree
- 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… Agony
- 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… Based
- Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. Agony
- In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization. Accepted
- But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and… Committee
- The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of… Any