Workingmen Are At The Foundation Of Society.

The Labor Of A Human Being Is Not A Commodity Or Article Of Commerce.

[the Labor Movement Is] A Movement Of The Working People, For The Working People, By The Working People, Governed By Ourselves, With Its Policies Determined By Ourselves.

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.

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.

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