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I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

#been #custer #general #given #had

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, for the future of Labor is the future of America. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#assemble #citizens #crystallized #demand #future

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. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#been #challenged #conflicts #denied #faith

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 them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#alleviate #corporate #despairing #economic #fair

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 the internal and external course of the republic. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#course #definite #destined #external #greatly

In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#agreements #bargaining #collective #collective bargaining #committee

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#america #born #committee #economic #industrial

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 these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#armed men #authoritative #become #been #buried

When you go into the other guy's backyard you cannot hope to win on points. ↗

— Lennox Lewis

#cannot #go #guy #hope #into

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#has-been #than