“You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.” WorldTogetherPoliticalPoliticsHoursPartyLaborVoteUnionsStrikesPolitical PartiesLabor UnionWorld Is Yours Author:Eugene V. Debs
“One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent that they serve the economic and political purposes of the corporations, they are the foes – and not the friends – of the working class.” PoliticalPurposeClassDoubtEconomicProveShadowUnionsCraftsCorporationsWorking ClassGlancesFoeRailroads Author:Eugene V. Debs
“In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more humiliating and debasing role than that in which the railway unions appear at this very hour before the American people and the world.” PeopleWorldBodyHoursRolesLaborUnionsOrganizedPresent DayHumiliatingRailwayOrganized Labor Author:Eugene V. Debs
“Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting corporations in this struggle. I was made to see that in craft unionism the capitalist class have it within their power to keep the workers divided, to use one part of them to conquer and crush another part of them. Indeed, I was made to see that the old form of unionism separates the workers and keeps them helpless at the mercy of their masters.” LongMadeUseFormRealizingDealsClassStruggleMastersMercyTradeUnionsWorkersCraftsConquerCorporationsCrushDividedCapitalistLong AgoHelplessIncompetentTrade UnionsUnionism Author:Eugene V. Debs
“As long as this great army of workers is scattered among so many craft unions, it will be impossible for them to unite and act in harmony together. Craft unionism is the negation of solidarity. The more unions you have, the less unity.” LongTogetherImpossibleArmyHarmonyUnionsUnityWorkersCraftsSolidarityNegationUnionismGreat Army Author:Eugene V. Debs
