Labor Day Is Devoted To

Doing For People What They Can And Ought To Do For Themselves Is A Dangerous Experiment. In The Last Analysis, The Welfare Of The Workers Depends Upon Their Own Initiative. Whatever Is Done Under The Guise Of Philanthropy Or Social Morality Which In Any Way Lessens Initiative Is The Greatest Crime That Can Be Committed Against The Toilers. Let Social Busybodies And Professional "public Morals Experts" In Their Fads Reflect Upon The Perils They Rashly Invite Under This Pretense Of Social Welfare.

Why Should The Wealth Of The Country Be Stored In Banks And Elevators While The Idle Workman Wanders Homeless About The Streets And The Idle Loafers Who Hoard The Gold Only To Spend It On Riotous Living Are Rolling About In Fine Carriages From Which They Look Out On Peaceful Meetings And Call Them Riots?

The Periods Of Unemployment Accompanying Depression In The Business Cycle . . . Present A Challenge To All Our Claims To Progress, Humanity, And Civilization.

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.