Calvin Coolidge Quote

Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.


From the speech "Plymouth, Labor Day" (1 September 1919), as printed in Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (2nd Ed.), Houghton Mifflin, pp. 200-201 - Plymouth, Labor Day (1919)


Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.