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We feel as if we were hard labor convicts where everything but our…

Quote bySamuel Gompers · 1850–1924

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Out of Their Own Mouths: A Revelation and an Indictment of Sovietism, New York: NY, E.P Dutton and Company (1921) p. 84. Resolution from the Petrograd workers, (Sept. 5, 1920). Co-authored by William English Walling..

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We feel as if we were hard labor convicts where everything but our feeding has been made subject to iron rules. We have become lost as human beings, and have been turned into slaves.

— Samuel Gompers

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