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John Llewellyn Lewis fue un líder laboral estadounidense quien sirvió como presidente de los United Mine Workers of America o UMW , desde 1920 hasta 1960. Fue un personaje importante en la historia de la minería de carbón, y fue una fuerza impulsora para la fundación del Congreso de Organizaciones Industriales .

Un liberal, desempeñó un papel clave en el gran tamaño de la victoria de Franklin D. Roosevelt en 1936, pero como un aislacionista, rompió con Roosevelt en 1940 sobre su política antinazi. Lewis era un luchador y líder de huelgas muy eficaz, y logró superar fácilmente a sus oponentes mientras proveyendo salarios altos a los sindicalistas. Lewis fue uno de los líderes más polémicos en la historia del movimiento laboral. Recibe el crédito por la creación del CIO, pero era odiado por muchos por exigir huelgas de mineros de carbón que muchos creían eran perjudiciales para el esfuerzo bélico. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. febrero 1880 – 11. junio 1969
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“Labor is marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.”

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Labor and the Nation speech (September 3, 1937)

“Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of the race. It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace.”

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Labor and the Nation speech (September 3, 1937)

“No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor, or divert its purpose to play its natural and rational part in the development of the economic, political and social life of our nation.”

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Labor and the Nation speech (September 3, 1937)

“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.”

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Labor and the Nation speech (September 3, 1937)

“Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.”

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Labor and the Nation speech (September 3, 1937)

“If there is to be peace in our industrial life, let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.”

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Labor and the Nation speech (September 3, 1937)

“I have pleaded (labor's) case, not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of the captain of a mighty host, demanding the rights to which free men are entitled.”

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Speech at United Mine Workers convention at Indianapolis (March 1940), quoted in Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren R. Van Tine, John L. Lewis: A Biography (1986), p. 278

“Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?”

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When asked about the presence of communists and other radicals working as organizers for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee; quoted in Life magazine, October 25, 1954

“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.”

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Labor and the Nation speech (September 3, 1937)