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. John L. Lewis More Quotes by John L. Lewis More Quotes From John L. Lewis This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it. John L. Lewis support organization heart Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy. John L. Lewis economy democracy goal But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic. John L. Lewis here now influence people 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. John L. Lewis charity government men children