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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... by living wages i mean more than a bare subsistence level - i mean the wages of decent living.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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No Business Which Depends For Existence On

Franklin D. Roosevelt
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... by living wages i mean more than a bare subsistence level - i mean the wages of decent living.
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In my inaugural i laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. it seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. by "business" i mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers i mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages i mean more than a bare subsistence level - i mean the wages of decent living.
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The tpp is another corporate-backed agreement that is the latest in a series of trade policies which have cost us millions of decent-paying jobs, pushed down wages for american workers and led to the decline of our middle class. we want american companies to create decent-paying jobs in america, not just low-wage countries like vietnam, malaysia or china. the tpp must be defeated.
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The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.
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We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers. wherever in any business the prosperity of the business man is obtained by lowering the wages of his workmen and charging an excessive price to the consumers we wish to interfere and stop such practices. we will not submit to that kind of prosperity any more than we will submit to prosperity obtained by swindling investors or getting unfair advantages over business rivals.
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We have seen numerous instances in which american businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled american workers, simply because they can get the foreign workers more cheaply. it has become a major means of circumventing the costs of paying skilled american workers or the costs of training them.
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Imperialism has now reached a degree of almost scientific perfection. it uses white workers to conquer the non-white workers of the colonies. then, it hurls the non-white workers of one colony against those of another non-white colony. finally, it relies on the colored workers of the colonies to rule the white workers. recently, white french soldiers near mutiny in the occupied ruhr of germany, were surrounded by french african soldiers, and colored native light-infantry were sent against white german strikers.
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