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You can’t do it unless you organize.

Samuel Gompers

So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.
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Employment Find Hour Long Seek Work
Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion
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Arbitration Believe Found Inside Lamb Lion Morning Umpires
So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service.
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Actuated Decision Inspire Long Principle Service Spirit Voluntary Wise
No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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Children Economic Inequality Este Money Offer Race Vbarbarian
All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.
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Amn Battle Conflict Connect Degree Holiday Less Man Other Over Power Race
You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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Bar Iron Man Pig Soul Weight
There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be. It is his legal right, and no one can or dare question his exercise of that legal right.
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Certain Exercise Join Labor Reason Unexplainable Union Worker
The right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.
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Convey Life New Right Say Thing Through Unexpected Wrong
Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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Endeavor Foundation Men Share Society Working
There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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Abolish Aspire Denied Determine Endure Long Order Right Wrong
In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers.
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Analyse Committed Crime Depend Gret Guise Initiative Matter Social Toiler
We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.
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Administer Card Election Friend Honest Hostile Indifferent Intelligent Men Negligent Opportunity Party Possession Rebuke Stand Stringling Trade
It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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Capitalist Common Impossible Interest Laborer Struggle
Let social busybodies and professional “public morals experts” in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.
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Bodies Busy Moral Peril Pretense Public Social Under Welfare
Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.
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Make Man Product Share Show Society Something Working
The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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Citizen Country Know People World

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