and i know that there are so many people in this country, in this world, who feel like they don't exist because their stories aren't told. or they think their stories aren't worthy of being told. in this country we've gotten to the point where we kind of think there is a handful of legitimate stories that make you a true american. and so if you don't fall into that narrow sort of line, it's like you don't belong. but we all belong. my book is just the ordinaryness of a very extraordinary story. >> watch tonight on espn2's book tv. 7:45 eastern. >> this week the white house did not release a presidential weekly address. the democratic address from representative matt cartwright of pennsylvania deals with the recent supreme court decision

on fees charged by public sector unions. representative cartwright: hello. i'm congressman matt cartwright. it was with regret i read the supreme court's decision this week. the u.s. supreme court voted against every single hard working american who fights every day just to make ends meet, just to pay their bills, to support their families, just to put away a little bit of money. this week's decision undermines the freedom of people who keep us safe -- first responders, corrections officers, police officers, snow plow drivers, firefighters, teachers, sanitation workers. all public service workers, public servants who go out there every day for you, for me, and for our kids. this 5-4 vote decision undermines their very freedom to negotiate for decent pay and

fair work places. i represent northeastern pennsylvania, a place where the right to bargain collectively is time honored. back in 1902, this man, john mitchell, a labor organizer, came to the area and what he found was miners working all hours in terrible conditions for meager pay. he also found that the workers were unable to join together because of ethnic differences and the mine owners played those ethnic differences off against each other. somehow and to his ever lasting credit mitchell was able to get the workers to look past their differences and get them to go out on strike together. they struck for higher wages and shorter days and together they put their very lives on the line. for six months they struck. and the workers were left with absolutely nothing at the end, after 163 days, the coal strike ended and they went to arbitration. since none of us were around then, i want to share with you the words of this man, clarence

darrow, who spoke for the workers. he said this. i have heard my clients, 147,000 working men, who toil while other men grow rich, men who go down into the earth and face greater dangers than men who go out upon the sea or out upon the land in battle, men who have little to hope for, little to think of excepting work. these are men who demean themselves as nobly, as bravely, as loyally as anybody f man who ever lived and suffered and died for the generations yet to come. we are working for democracy, darrow said, for humanity, for the future, for the day that will come too late for us to see it or know it or receive its benefits but which will come and will remember our struggles, our triumphs, our defeats, and the words we speak. that strike was successful. something that never would have happened without john mitchell

and the united mine workers. we revere john mitchell in northeastern pennsylvania and we honor his memory, but this week instead of honoring our american tradition of supporting labor unions the supreme court's ideological decision overturned a 40-year precedent. 40 years of the fabric of american law torn up. this decision enables free riding by those who benefit from union agreements but don't want to pay their fair share. let me be clear. labor unions give workers a collective voice to regular people to gain better wages, better healthcare, and a better future, with a secure retirement. strong public unions built the middle class in our country and shaped the life of every american by negotiating worker rights. while washington republicans are rigging the rules against workers in the courts and the congress democrats are fighting to deliver a better deal to working men and women. now is not the time to turn back the clock on fair pay.

now is the time for us to fight back. that's why yesterday afternoon, joined by senator herono i proudly introduced the public service freedom to negotiate anth. our bill reaffirms the right of every public sector employee to join a union and bargain collectively. in the face of new attacks on workers democrats are advancing new solutions building on the bold commitments of our economic agenda for america, giving workers the freedom to negotiate a better deal while the supreme court may have turned its back on american workers this week, democrats in congress have not. we stand with our union brothers and sisters. again, the words of clarence darrow. we were working for democracy, for humanity, for the future. the future he was talking about is here. let's work together to preserve it together. thank you. >> c-span, where history

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