You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.

The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.

Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests are mutual. They ought to be able to act together as one. But they divide according to craft and calling, and if you were to propose today to unite them that they might actually do something to advance their collective and individual interests as workers, you would be opposed by every grand officer of these organizations.

One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent that they serve the economic and political purposes of the corporations, they are the foes – and not the friends – of the working class.

It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.