“Now you men who fought in the Great War, you were told it was a war for democracy, were you not? A war to end all wars. You went Over There, you took down the Kaiser and the German Reich. You saved the world from oppression and came home and found what? More oppression. More autocracy. A new bunch of American kaisers, men who made their fortunes on the war, on coal and steel, arms and machinery, on the blood and muscle of American fighting men, only to abuse those same men back here at home, exploiting them in their mines and mills, factories and stockyards and killing floors. Robber barons
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