All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.
I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.
I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.
By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.
The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.