“The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.”

— John L. Lewis

Labor and the Nation speech (September 3, 1937)

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American labor leader 1880–1969

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