With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.

Clarence Darrow, in The Railroad Trainmen, 1909
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
Susan B. Anthony, The Revolution (woman suffrage newspaper) March 18, 1869

"We want Bread
and Roses Too."
Placards carried by striking mill workers
Lawrence, Mass., 1912

THOMPSON, E.P.
In times of political ferment the illiterate would get their workmates to read aloud from the periodicals
The Making of the English Working Class, p782
Labour Day, 1897, Amsterdam
All day long, whether rain or shine,
She’s a part of the assembly line,
She’s making history,
working for victory,
Rosie — the Riveter.

“Rosie the Riveter,” Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb
It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased. Adam Smith
Of all national assets archives are the most precious; they are the gift of one generation to another and the extent of our care of them marks the extent of our civilization.
Intermationality Solidarity, One of five murals entitled The Worker in the New World Order
Portable mural, 1993, ICEM by Mike Alewitz
LaBOR aRT & MURaL PRoJECT
Fletcher Martin, Mine Rescue, rejected study for mural in the Kellogg Idaho, Post Office. This mural was rejected by local businessmen in favor of another.
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