The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
SAMUEL GOMPERSWe 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.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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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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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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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