 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.  History of American Labor - Side 368av Joseph G. Rayback - 2008 - 504 siderBegrenset visning - Om denne boken
 | United States. Employment and Training Administration - 1977 - 202 sider
...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...adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace." Lewis was convinced the President had put the New Deal aside. He charged Roosevelt and the Democratic... | |
 | Nelson Lichtenstein - 1983 - 340 sider
...days of the CIO's desperate Little Steel strike, Lewis replied in a tone of profound remonstrance: "It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table...adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace." The CIO, reported Lewis, could not avoid "a political essay of the works and deeds of its so-called benef1ciaries.... | |
 | Melvyn Dubofsky, Warren R. Van Tine - 1986 - 442 sider
...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...adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace." Such hyperbole led many reporters and listeners to miss Lewis's real message to the president, which... | |
 | Carol Felsenthal - 2003 - 344 sider
...take sides in a steel strike, blurting, "A plague on both your houses!" Lewis roared his response: "It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table...labor and its adversaries when they become locked in a deadly embrace."22 In 1940 Lewis suggested to FDR that the one way to make a third term palatable... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 sider
...grant a new trial, Hill was shot and killed by a firing squad on November 19, 1915 (pp. 7, 9, 10). 985 It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table...adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace. JOHN L. LEWIS, president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), radio broadcast, September... | |
 | Max Green - 1996 - 240 sider
...plague on both your houses.' "29 A furious John L. Lewis denounced the president on nationwide radio: "It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house," Lewis thundered, "to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when... | |
 | Don Woodard - 1998 - 348 sider
...roundly castigated the president. In a speech on Labor Day 1937, Lewis leveled this volley at Roosevelt: "It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table...adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace." Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, I Can Hear It Now. Columbia Masterworks, Set MM-800, Side Two,... | |
 | James R. Green - 1998 - 294 sider
...of labor and capital. This statement prompted Lewis to say: "It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine...impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they are locked in deadly embrace." When the U AW attempted to organize at the Ford Motor Company, it was... | |
 | Duane Lockard - 1998 - 262 sider
...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 at labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when... | |
 | Robert G. Torricelli, Andrew Caroll - 1999 - 488 sider
...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...adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace. I repeat that labor seeks peace and guarantees its own loyalty, but the voice of labor, insistent upon... | |
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