If I had enough money, I would take busloads of people out to the fields and into the labor camps. Then they'd know how that fine salad got on their table. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor. I have ploughed and planted. They don't even speak English.
Progress is born of agitation.
It is agitation or stagnation. We are exploited more ruthlessly than men. Introduction by Irving Howe. All rights reserved.