“Unions were created to make living conditions just a little better than they were before they were created, and the union that does not manifest that kind of interest in human beings cannot endure, it cannot live.”

—  Philip Murray

Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Vol. 14 (1952), p. 232

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