What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.

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

Riches are the savings of many in the hands of one.

What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more humiliating and debasing role than that in which the railway unions appear at this very hour before the American people and the world.

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