The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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
Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Samuel Gompers
The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
Samuel Gompers
There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
Samuel Gompers
What does labor want We want more schoolhouses and less jails more books and less arsenals more learning and less vice more leisure and less greed more justice and less revenge in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures,
Samuel Gompers
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