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Lane Kirkland
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“The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy.”
Lane Kirkland (1922–1999) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in The AFL-CIO American Federationist, Vols. 84-86 (1977), p. 4.
“The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.”
Lane Kirkland (1922–1999) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited by Arthur B. Shostak, Robust Unionism: Innovations in the Labor Movement (1991), p. 190.