Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders … - Samuel Gompers

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Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.

Samuel Gompers

Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle loafers who hoard the gold only to spend it on riotous living are rolling about in fine carriages from which they look out on peaceful meetings and call them riots?

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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, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.

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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.

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

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To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.

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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.

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