Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.
John L. LewisWhile 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.
John L. LewisThe union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined by the hungriest unfortunates whom the non-union operators can employ.
John L. LewisOut of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.
John L. Lewis