So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the … - Samuel Gompers

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The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.

Samuel Gompers

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.

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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.

Beautiful, Bright, Happy, Manhood, Revenge, Teaching

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

Day, Hands, Lay, Men, Voice

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

Firmly, Organization, People, Respect, Rights, Unions

To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.

Choices, Conditions, Hands, Under, Workers

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.

Conditions, Cutting, Long, Safety, Sanitary, Wages