What Does Labor Want?
— More!
"Labor
wants the earth and the fullness thereof. There
is nothing too precious, there is nothing too beautiful, too lofty, too
ennobling which is in the scope and comprehension of labor's aspirations.
“We
want more schoolhouses and less jails; 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. These in brief are the primary
demands made by the Trade Unions in the name of labor. These are the demands
made by labor upon modern society and in their consideration is involved the
fate of civilization.”
Samuel
Gompers, President of American Federation
of Labor 1886-1924
August
28, 1893
Membership Meeting
