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August 30, 2017

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I could get rid of all the workers who earn… $15 an hour and bring in a contract house that will pay their laborers $7 an hour.  But that breaks the spirit and trust of the employees.  If you close a factory because you can get work done for $2 an hour elsewhere, you break the American Dream.

Aaron Feuerstein CEO, Malden Mills, Inc., 1986

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August 28, 2017

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Capitalism, Strikes

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“We’re with you,” the mill worker said. “We’re in the same boat…I won’t call the employers despots. I won’t call them tyrants. But the term capitalist is sort of synonymous and it will do.”

A Pittsburgh mill worker in 1877 declaring solidarity with the striking rail workers

UC Radio: 2017.07.14

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