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But it can never be realized unless the laborers are here to do the work,--the skilled laborers, the common laborers, the willing laborers, the well-paid laborers.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “But it can never be realized unless the laborers are here to do the work,--the skilled laborers, the common laborers…”
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Du Bois stresses the necessity of having skilled and willing laborers to achieve the vision of industrial supremacy in America.
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