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.


Labor and the Nation speech (September 3, 1937)

John L. Lewis Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...