Chris Hayes Quotes
I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.
Hayes, Chris. Interview. The Nation, The Nation Company, 2014.
At the time there was very little such legislation or regulation, and the little there was only occurred after massive lobbying efforts by organized labor. In modern times, often it takes a horrible tragedy to occur before the political will can be mobilized to cope with issues of occupational health and safety.
Two years later he was assassinated.
Roosevelt shocked the conservative members of his own party with this statement. Labor unions were not then an accepted concept in American society. Anti trust legislation and enforcement was in its infancy and companies in an industry commonly conspired as to price fixing, labor negotiations and market share allocations. TR had a scrupulous sense of fairness and equity.
Big Bill Haywood. Historically, the upper economic and business class, including currently, tend to view all labor organizations and unions as socialistic and or communistic and attach them for being such. However, in many industries in America today labor has a great deal of power and the industries are not socialistic or communist. The IWW however was one of the labor organizations that was based on socialism and contained many communists over the years. Haywood himself was a leader of the Socialist Party and campaigned for Eugene Debbs. Like Debbs he was convicted of an unconstitutional law of speaking against the WWI draft. Unlike Debbs who went to prison and was released later, Haywood skipped bail and lived in Russia for the rest of his life.
He had squads of thugs that he would “rent” out to other gangsters for their enforcement activities and to unions to protect themselves from goons and intimidate non union workers. However, he would not let his men work as goons and strike busters or for companies—despite huge pay offers—to keep their workers in line, a common practice at the time.
Christopher Loffredo Hayes is an American political commentator, television news anchor and author. Hayes hosts All In with Chris Hayes, a weekday news and opinion television show on MSNBC. Hayes also hosts a weekly MSNBC podcast, Why Is This Happening? Hayes formerly hosted a weekend MSNBC show, Up with Chris Hayes. He is an editor-at-large of The Nation magazine.
