Where Trade Unions Are Most Firmly Organized,

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.

There Are Such Wonderful Possibilities In The Life Of Each Man And Woman! No Human Being Is Unimportant. My Inspiration Comes In Opening Opportunities That All Alike May Be Free To Live Life To The Fullest.

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.

The Freedom Of Speech And The Freedom Of The Press Have Not Been Granted To The People In Order That They May Say Things Which Please, And Which Are Based Upon Accepted Thought, But The Right To Say The Things Which Displease, The Right To Say The Things Which Convey The New And Yet Unexpected Thoughts, The Right To Say Things, Even Though They Do A Wrong.

So Long As There Is One [person] Who Seeks Employment And Cannot Find It, The Hours Of Work Are Too Long.