Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
SAMUEL GOMPERSW.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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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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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.
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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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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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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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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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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