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Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and den

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"Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work"

- William Graham Sumner

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