Who among the men who have observed the way the work-
ing people of our country toil, the industry with which they
work; who among the employing class who have observed their
own employees and the workers in other industries but have
been struck with the great velocity and intensity with which
the toilers of our country work. If they doubt it let them
watch the men who come from any part of the world to the
United States and put them to work in any industry and you
will find, as many of them have said to me when working, "Why
I have simply become dazed with the rapidity with which my
shopmates have worked." Work harder! Work hard! Work
harder, my Heavens! it reminds me very much of what a friend
of mine one time said and which struck me as very apt, that it
seemed to him some men believed they were put on earth not
only to work but to be worked, and inasmuch as they were but
a very short time on earth, for Heaven's sake work them harder;
you don't know when they are going to drop off. The idea of
suggesting that American men work harder!

Well, we are going to do our duty, and I want to say to you
gentlemen that there are no men in the world who are more im-
pressive in the lesson that they desire to teach their fellow-workers
than are the men — mistakenly called the labor leaders — of our
country, who try to impress upon the minds of labor and union
men the necessity of doing a good, thorough hard day's
work. When a man is always pleading and demanding that the
working men of our country shall work harder, and knows no
other policy, and knows no other relief — well I simply want to
enter my emphatic protest. That is all. — From address before
The National Civic Federation, New York City. (American
Federationist, February, 1903.)

I want to enter my emphatic protest against this constant use
a£ the term "restriction of output" as applied to the American



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workingmen. I don't pretend to say that here and there you
won't find some who shirk work. 