PART THREE - The Retreat from Popular Politics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2009
Summary
Organized labor has learned the lesson that, for a time at least, silent yet constant and persistent effort would bring its best achievement. …
Samuel Gompers, American Federationist, October 1910, 898If Wilson would only go the whole limit on the people's side, I believe we would win a tremendous popular victory.
Frank Walsh, in a letter to Basil Manley, June 26, 1916, Frank Walsh Papers- Type
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- Information
- Pure and Simple PoliticsThe American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881–1917, pp. 215 - 216Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998