John L. Lewis Steel Quotations

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.

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

Five of the corporations in the steel industry elected to resist collective bargaining and undertook to destroy the steel workers' union.