“You know that every year in the western part of the United States there are fruits and grains produced that never find a market; bananas and oranges rot on the ground, whole skiffs of fruits are dumped into the ocean. Not because people do not need these foods and couldn't make good use of them in the big cities of the east, but because the employing class prefer to destroy a large percentage of the production in order to keep the price up in cities like New York, Chicago, Baltimore and Boston. If they sent all the bananas that they produce into the eastern part of the United States we would be buying bananas at probably three for a cent.””
Quotes by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Sabotage
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a prominent American labor leader, feminist, and activist known for her role in the early 20th-century labor movement. Born in 1890 in Concord, New Hampshire, she became a k...