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Victoria C. Woodhull: “It cannot be too strongly insisted upon, nor too often repeated, that it is the first duty of the labor interest to look…”

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It cannot be too strongly insisted upon, nor too often repeated, that it is the first duty of the labor interest to look to it that our halls of legislation are filled by those who understand the true and the harmonious relations of labor and capital.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull stresses the responsibility of labor interests to ensure that their representatives understand the dynamics between labor and capital.

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