To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.
SAMUEL GOMPERSWhere trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves.
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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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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin.
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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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 labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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