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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.

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.

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

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.

It Is Impossible For Capitalists And Laborers To Have Common Interests.