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.
I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.
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.
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.