“A reduction of the hours of labor to the point where all can have employment is worth a General Strike, because upon this point all efforts can be focused, and if carried, its beneficial effects would be felt immediately by the whole working class, men, women and children.” ChildrenWomenLaborWorking ClassGeneral Strike Author:Lucy Parsons
“This is the fate which awaits many of the middle class and the wage-class. What are you going to do about it? Are you going to serve notice on these thieves, and highway robbers, sitting in high places of “honor” and “trust,” that by the eternal god of justice, and by the manhood in you, that you will not, in this land of plenty, allow your children to become the mere hirelings and dependents upon the sweet will of their children?” ChildrenJusticeMiddle ClassWorking Class Author:Lucy Parsons
“Give them to understand that you will not stand patiently by and see your hard earnings squandered by a luxuriating class of idlers.” WealthyWorking ClassClass War Author:Lucy Parsons
“There was a movement at one time, not so many years ago either, which was international in its scope, which had for its object the setting aside the first of May for a general, international holiday, looking ultimately to the inauguration of a short-hour workday, but this grand idea has been side-tracked in later years by a lot of political buncombe and claptrap, thus persuading the working classes into the notion that they can gain their freedom by electing a lot of fellows to office. (1906)” VotingHolidayWorking ClassMay DayInternational Labor Day Author:Lucy Parsons
