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The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.
Leland Stanford -
I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.
Leland Stanford
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In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.
Leland Stanford -
The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.
Leland Stanford -
The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.
Leland Stanford -
Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.
Leland Stanford -
All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.
Leland Stanford -
It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.
Leland Stanford