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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards celebrated snagging two coveted labor union endorsements on Labor Day, while continuing to tout himself as the candidate who cares most about labor issues. "I want to be the president who walks down the White House lawn and says the word union, who walks down the White House lawn and makes certain that America understands the importance of the organized labor movement in the history of America," said Edwards. Earlier in the day he received the endorsement of the United Mine Workers of America and the United Steelworkers, the largest industrial union in North America. He already had the support of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, and now says he has more labor endorsements than any of the other Democratic presidential candidates.