Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

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

One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man's attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man's reason can a movement succeed.

Workingmen are at the foundation of society. 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.

We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money

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