Labor Day Is Devoted To

The Worst Crime Against Working People Is A Company Which Fails To Operate At A Profit.

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.

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.

You Can't Weigh The Soul Of A Man With A Bar Of Pig-iron.

No Lasting Gain Has Ever Come From Compulsion.