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Your Quotes for 16 August 2005 - Labor

George Meaney was born at New York City on this day in 1894. His father was a plumber, and the president of his union local, so George left high school to enter his father's trade, and became active in union affairs. He was president of the New York Federation of Labor from 1934 to 1939, then became secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of Labor. He became president of that group in 1952, and put together the merger that formed the AFL-CIO in 1955 and became its first president. Many feel that the day of organized labor is at an end, even if they did invent the concept of the two-day weekend, but Labor itself certainly isn't going away.

No man was ever glorious, who was not laborious.
     - Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
     - Robert Burton, 1577 - 1640

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
     - Thomas Merton, 1915 - 1968

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
     - Ulysses S. Grant, 1822 - 1885

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
     - Horace Greeley, 1811 - 1872

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.
     - John Anthony Ciardi, 1916 - 1986

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