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.
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Five of the corporations in the steel industry elected to resist collective bargaining and undertook to destroy the steel workers' union.John L. Lewis
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 of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.
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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.
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Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.
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Ordinary problems affecting wages, hours, and working conditions, in most instances, will quickly respond to negotiation in the council room.
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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.
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