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Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation.
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The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.
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I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.
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You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.
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And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
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I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.
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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
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What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
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Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.
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In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?
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I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.
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I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
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