The day for which the toilers in past centuries looked forward, when their rights and their wrongs would be discussed ... that the workers of our day lay down their tools of labor for a holiday, but upon which they may touch shoulders in marching phalanx and feel the stronger for it.
More Quotes from Samuel Gompers:
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.Samuel Gompers
It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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So long as there is one person who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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