Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proper for me to say at this point that if actions of this kind can be successfully persisted in, the Government will be overthrown, and the Government that would take its place would be a dictatorship and that the first thing the dictatorship would do would be to destroy the labor unions...
...because he had plunged them into this fight before they were ready for it. But publicly they had no choice but to support him. At week's end C.I.O.'s Philip Murray hysterically proclaimed: "There is a deliberate and monstrous movement under way to cripple, if not destroy, the labor movement of this country." He called for a united labor front against the "predatory interests." His words reflected the panic of shrewder labor leaders, who had read the election returns...
...Personally, I reject Communism ... I am convinced that democracy is a better society than dictatorship can build and that the su est way to destroy dictatorship abroad is to establish democracy at home; but it must be a democracy that preserves political liberty and uses it to establish equality and fraternity...
Certainly, said he, the N.A.M. hoped to rectify "the unbalanced collective bargaining relationship between labor and management." But business must remember that U.S. voters "did not vote to destroy unions or to do away with collective bargaining; to deny labor the right to strike or to wipe out its legitimate gains...
...declared that the first act of a dic- tatorship would be to "destroy the labor unions...