It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

One's own employees ought to be one's own best customers. Paying high wages is behind the prosperity of this country.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.

"A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

We declare war with the wages system, which demoralizes alike the hirer and the hired, cheats both, and enslaves the workingman.