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Lyndon Johnson: “Average manufacturing earnings have risen nearly 16 percent, and weekly earnings in the primary metals industry have…”

On the recordSeptember 21, 1964
Average manufacturing earnings have risen nearly 16 percent, and weekly earnings in the primary metals industry have jumped 23 percent.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks in Atlantic City at the Convention of the United Steelworkers of America

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