Let us see:
What becomes of the established FACT that a nation is
prosperous in proportion as the average individual citizen
(NOT its few millionaires) is prosperous? There are nowhere
on earth stronger labor unions than in the United States. There
are no such unions in Mexico, none such in South America, none
as powerful in Canada. Why are we not eclipsed industrially by
those countries?
You say that labor unions have killed English industry? No.
They have kept England alive in the face of fierce competition.
Millions upon millions of Englishmen live on a little foggy
northern island incapable of supporting them. By their courage,
their mental power, their genius, their UNION, they have kept
the nation great. It is as though in one corner of New York
State we had the greatest industrial power on earth. What the
Gulf Stream has been to England's agriculture, labor unionism has
been to England's industry.
It is not the English WORKINGMAN who has been beaten. The
English workmen did not sell the English mercantile navy to J.P.
Morgan. English capitalists did that.
Get this in your heads, you who talk against unions. Morgan and
his fellow American capitalists have formed themselves into
financial UNIONS, which we call trusts.
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