So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.

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; to free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.

So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

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. He began publication of an expensive magazine and proclaimed 'a thousand secret agents in a thousand communities.'

The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.