Labor Was Marching Toward The Goal Of

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.

While The Men Of The Steel Industry Were Going Through Blood And Gas In Defense Of Their Rights And Their Homes And Their Families, Elsewhere On The Far-flung C.i.o. Front The Hosts Of Labor Were Advancing And Intelligent And Permanent Progress Was Being Made.

The Workers Of The Nation Were Tired Of Waiting For Corporate Industry To Right Their Economic Wrongs, To Alleviate Their Social Agony And To Grant Them Their Political Rights. Despairing Of Fair Treatment, They Resolved To Do Something For Themselves.

Increased Interest And Participation By Labor In The Affairs Of Government Should Make For Economic And Political Stability In The Future. Labor Has A Constitutional And Statutory Right To Participate.

Out Of The Agony And Travail Of Economic America The Committee For Industrial Organization Was Born.