Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
Samuel GompersSo long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.
Samuel GompersWe 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.
Samuel Gompers