Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers… It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop.
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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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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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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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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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The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
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