What Does Labor Want?

"What does Labor want?

It wants the earth and the fullness thereof.

There is nothing

too beautiful, too lofty, too ennobling

unless it is within the scope and aspiration

of Labor's aspirations and wants.

We want

more schoolhouses and less jails

more books and less arsenals

more learning and less vice

more liesure and less greed

more justice and less revenge

in fact, more of the opportunities to make

childhood more joyful

womanhood more beautiful

and manhood more noble."

Samuuel Gompers

August 28, 1893

Chicago, Illinois