Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent. Not all the coal that is dug warms the world. It remains indifferent to the lives of ...those who risk their life and health down in the blackness of the earth; who crawl through dark, choking crevices with only a bit of lamp on their caps to light their silent way; whose backs are bent with toil, whose very bones ache, whose happiness is sleep, and whose peace is death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not a suffragist, nor do I believe in "careers" for women, especially a "career" in factory and mill where most working women... have their "careers." A great responsibility rests upon woman--the training of children. This is her most beautiful task.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taking men into the union is just the kindergarten of their education and every force is against their further education. Men who ...live up those lonely creeks have only the mine owners' Y.M.C.As, the mine owners' preachers and teachers, the mine owners' doctors and newspapers to look to for their ideas. So they don't get many.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The rank and file have let their servants become their masters and dictators.... Provision should be made in all union constitutio...ns for the recall of leaders. Big salaries should not be paid. Career hunters should be driven out, as well as leaders who use labor for political ends. These types are menaces to the advancement of labor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know no East or West, North or South, when it comes to my class fighting the battle for justice. If it is my fortune to live to ...see the industrial chain broken from every workingman's child in America, and if then there is one black child in Africa in bondage, there shall I go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for th...e wrongs that others do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution right along industria...l lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are told that every American boy has the chance of being president. I tell you that these little boys in the iron cages would s...ell their chance any day for good square meals and a chance to play.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »