Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
SAMUEL GOMPERSOur 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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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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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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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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The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.
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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
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In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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