Labor Day Is Devoted To No Man,

Doing For People What They Can And Ought To Do For Themselves Is A Dangerous Experiment.

The Worst Crime Against Working People Is A Company Which Fails To Operate At A Profit.

All Other Holidays Are In A More Or Less Degree Connected With Conflicts And Battles Of Man's Prowess Over Man, Of Strife And Discord For Greed And Power, Of Glories Achieved By One Nation Over Another. Labor Dayis Devoted To No Man, Living Or Dead, To No Sect, Race, Or Nation.

So Long As We Have Held Fast To Voluntary Principles And Have Been Actuated And Inspired By The Spirit Of Service, We Have Sustained Our Forward Progress, And We Have Made Our Labor Movement Something To Be Respected And Accorded A Place In The Councils Of The Republic. Where We Have Blundered Into Trying To Force A Policy Or Decision, Even Though Wise And Right, We Have Impeded If Not Interrupted The Realization Of Our Own Aims.

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.