Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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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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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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The 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 movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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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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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man’s attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man’s reason can a movement succeed.
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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