The Labor Of A Human Being Is

There May Be Here And There A Worker Who For Certain Reasons Unexplainable To Us Does Not Join A Union Of Labor. That Is His Right. It Is His Legal Right, No Matter How Morally Wrong He May Be. It Is His Legal Right, And No One Can Or Dare Question His Exercise Of That Legal Right.

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.

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.

In Many Instances The Conduct Of Colored Workmen, And Those Who Have Spoken For Them, Has Not Been In Asking Or Demanding That Equal Rights Be Accorded To Them As To White Workmen, But Somehow Conveying The Idea That They Are To Be Petted And Coddled And Given Special Consideration And Special Privilege. Of Course That Can't Be Done.

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.