Ensuring the right to organize.

• Author: Gompers, Samuel
• Position: 1914 - Labor unions - Brief article

Without organization the wage-workers are helpless victims of the industrial forces that are seeking their own self-interest. The right to organize is a sham, a trick, a deceit, unless it carries with it the right to organize effectively and the right to use that organized power to further the interests of the workers. This implied right must be assured. In the...