“If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting — and whether or not we leaders agree.”

—  Ernest Bevin

New York World, 10 May 1926
Message to the American Federation of Labor appealing for help in the General Strike.

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