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You can’t do it unless you organize.

Samuel Gompers

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.
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Make Man Product Share Show Society Something Working
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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Bodies Busy Moral Peril Pretense Public Social Under Welfare
You can’t do it unless you organize.
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Labor Organized Union
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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Cut Cutting Hour Increase Long Mission Now Protection Safety Wage Workday Kill Worker
There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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Inspiration Life Live Man Opportunity Possible Woman Wonderful
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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Announce Build Communist Community Country Foster International Money Movement Party Red Secret
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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Certain Exercise Join Labor Reason Unexplainable Union Worker
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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Arbitration Believe Found Inside Lamb Lion Morning Umpires
To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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Beautiful Bright Childhood Happy Manhood More Noble Womanhood
The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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Article Commerce Commodity Human Being Labor
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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Convey Life New Right Say Thing Through Unexpected Wrong
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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Arouse Attempt Betterment Bold Compulsion Fact History Man relief Resentment Stand Use
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Dangerous Done Experiment Fads Ought People Themselves
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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Economic Movement Organization Organized Power Reality Represent Trade Worker
No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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Come Compulsion Ever Gain Lasting
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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Employment Find Hour Long Seek Work

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