The Worst Crime Against Working People Is

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 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.

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.

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.

What Does Labor Want? We Want More Schoolhouses And Less Jails; More Books And Less Arsenals; More Learning And Less Vice; More Leisure And Less Greed; More Justice And Less Revenge; In Fact, More Of The Opportunities To Cultivate Our Better Natures, To Make Manhood More Noble, Womanhood More Beautiful, And Childhood More Happy And Bright.