Lewis versus Howat: An Analysis of Labor Rhetoric, Education, and Class Privilege in Early Twentieth Century Mining Politics

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Lewis was a speaker that used many strategies to appeal to his audience. He uses people’s ethics and emotions in this speech. For example, he would say mention that during a strike this number of miners were either shot to death or bludgeoned to death by police or armed thugs paid by the steel companies. This taps into the audience’s emotion of hearing sad news like people being killed and most wouldn’t see this as an ethical thing.

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