Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.
There is no labor in which we engage but that there is a spirit telling us, 'Oh, you do not need to do that; it is a waste of time, and you ought to be engaged in something else.'
I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.
Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.