What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living

Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.

I will tell the truth wherever I please.