| Show Labor Labor Unions Founded on Rock I IBy Ii i By WILLIAM GREEN President American Federation of Labor It is Impossible to stop the organization and andy y expansion of trade unions American working workingmen r men and women are the most efficient and fi 4 American trade unions rank highest among the 4 most skilled and productive workers throughout through through- C out the world They have through years of tedious progress fought for and established what Is commonly termed an American stand standard of living That standard cannot be lowered without dislocating our economic and Industrial ma ma- chinery Our leadership among nations of the world must depend not on low wages but upon skilled trained spirited fine ed willing paid high-paid f a workers Our land is a wage high land It I will succeed as a wage high-wage land As a low low- wage country it would fall fail In competition with the other ther nations of tho tiro world |
