Our Mission Has Been The Protection Of

Labor Day Is 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.

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

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.

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.