Address of US Congressman Les AuCoin delivered before the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) convention in Oregon in 1982. In his address, Congressman AuCoin discussed President Reagan vetoing an anti-recession housing bill, unemployment, and the 1982 midterm elections, stating "This, my friends, is a fight, a fight over who is going to run America. Is it going to be rich men who have never stood in unemployment lines and have no understanding of what it means to be a construction boiler maker, the ranks of whom today are 90 per cent unemployed? Is this country going to be run by rich men and ultraconservatives who have no conception of what Reaganomics are doing to devastate the communities and families across this state and across this country? Or instead, is this great country going to be run by you, and your neighbors, and by workers everywhere...?"
A speech delivered by US Congressman Les AuCoin at a labor convention in Coos Bay, Oregon on June 29, 1982. In his speech, Congressman AuCoin advocated for the "tax-paying, middle-American person" who he argued was ignored by the Ronald Reagan Administration, further criticizing Reaganomics and how Raegan had then recently vetoed an anti-recession housing bill.
The remarks of US Congressman Les AuCoin delivered at the Oregon AFL-CIO State Labor Convention on September 17, 1981. In his speech, Congressman AuCoin advocated for organized labor and the working class, and discussed his dissatisfaction with the union busting movement and overall federal budget cuts proposed by the Reagan Administration.
