Authentication Materials:

  1. Speech Title exactly as it to be printed: “Speech at the Fifty-Fifth Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor.”
  2. Exact Date and Place of Speech Delivery: 16 October 1935. Fifty-Fifth Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor, Washington, D.C.
  3. Complete Name of Speaker, with year of birth and year of death: John L. Lewis (1880-1969).
  4. Complete name of editor or compiler of electronic text, with indication of role: Steve Martin, compiler and editor.
  5. Date of electronic edition: 2014.
  6. Languages: English (100%).
  7. Indication of editing functions performed: Steve Martin transcribed electronic version of the speech from The American Federation of Labor’s text, Report of the Proceedings of the Fifty-Fifth Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor. He edited and proofread the electronic text in 2014.

Bibliographic List of Sources:

John L. Lewis, “Speech at the Fifty-Fifth Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor,” Report of the Proceedings of the Fifty-Fifth Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor (Washington D.C.: Allied Printing, 1935), 534-542.

Statement of Editorial Procedures:

The entire text of this speech was published in Report of the Proceedings of the Fifty-Fifth Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor in 1935. This copy-text was closely transcribed from the organization’s official publication in 2014.

Paragraph numbers have been added in square brackets.

The text of this edition has been thoroughly checked and proofread.

All double quotation marks are rendered with “, all single quotation marks with apostrophe ‘.

This copy text is not subject to end-of-line hyphenation.

Special characters and characters with diachronic marks: none.

Departures from the copy-text and general editorial procedures: none.