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But labor was insistent on holding to the war heights, and heedless forces of reaction sought the pre-war levels, and both were wrong.
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Warren G. Harding
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gutenberg.orgWarren G. Harding: “But labor was insistent on holding to the war heights, and heedless forces of reaction sought the pre-war levels, and…”
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Harding critiques both labor's insistence on maintaining wartime conditions and the reactionary forces pushing for pre-war standards, stating that both sides were mistaken.
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