【美国人物志】五个劳工领袖 (4/9)

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在二十世纪初，美国的劳动者往往工作相当长的时间才能得到很少的工资，甚至有许多是在极其危险的条件下工作的。然而，大约有五百万的工人已加入了一个称为工会的群体，渴望能改善他们的处境。下面讲述的是5个致力于改善和提高工人工作环境的工会领袖。
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John L. LewisJohn L. Lewis was an extremely colorful and effective speaker. He had worked as a coal miner and could relate to the most terrible conditions workers faced. More than three million workers joined the CIO in its first year as a separate organization. For the first time, labor won many strikes and permanent improvements in workers conditions.
For many years, presidents, members of Congress, and business leaders considered John L. Lewis the voice of labor. And, American workers saw Lewis as their hero. By the 1950s, the labor movement was an established part of American life.