The Majority Report with Sam Seder - Labor Day 2026

Episode Date: September 7, 2026

Happy Labor Day! The MR Crew is off today but in the meantime please enjoy our annual audio compilation of labor-themed excerpts from luminaries such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mario Savio, John L. Lewis, as well as Sen. Bernie Sanders reading the words of Eugene Debs.

It is Monday, September 7th, 2006. My name is Sam Cedar. This is the five-time award-winning majority report. We are broadcasting live to tape steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. Folks, it's our special Labor Day traditional show. Emma, jump on here. Hey, I'm here. Just to extend the tradition, the music just cut out. Very abruptly. It is Labor Day.

So Sam's taking the time to discipline his labor force? Exactly. Exactly. Matt, if you just have a couple moments after the show, I'd like to talk to you in my office, please. It is Labor Day. and as is tradition around here, Emma, I think you'll recall, what do we do on Labor Day? We play our traditional Labor Day episode. That's correct. That's exactly it. And we're going to do so again.

Now, I should say... I actually don't remember. What do we do? We play our traditional Labor Day episode. Oh, okay, okay. Which is a compilation of different speeches, of important labor speeches. You know, this... There's a little bit of a dearth of it of some of these speeches because some of the best ones were, you know, back in the early 1900s, 1910s, 1920s. And a lot of it was in Yiddish, you know, back in the day and at least in the New York area.

But we've got a compilation that we've been leaning on for years. But I will also say two years ago, in 2020, we played a couple of interviews that we did with Jane McAleavy, the late great Jane McAleavy, who was a great union organizer. And that's also worth revisiting. I think if you remember you're able to go back and check those out. If not, next year we'll replay those. But you might be able to find them on YouTube separately as well.

But this year we have FDR. His labor department, Francis Perkins, was very important. She was actually from Worcester. I don't know if anybody knew that. I remember this from you telling me this last year. Very good, fun fact. Yep. Went to classical high school where my parents went, too.

I mean, obviously they were probably a couple years after. I was not that obvious. Sorry? Anyways, Mario Savio, giving a speech, which, incidentally, was also an inspiration for the speech given during the Labor episode on Battlestar Galactica when they had landed on one planet. And people can check that out. And John L. Lewis, of course. And Bernie Sanders reading the words of Eugene Debs.

That's awesome. I mean, Francis Perkins, just to point out, like, it's pretty cool that the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet was someone as cool as Francis Perkins. and like doesn't do what the modern Democratic Party does, which like sticks, you know, people, minority figures, sometimes like the Biden administration did in uncomfortable positions, like, you know, defending the genocide at the UN, for example, Linda Green, I'm forgetting her full name, but yeah, like, yeah, I probably should have looked that up before.

But that, like, Francis Perkins, first woman to serve in a presidential candidate, also a badass as well, standing for the right things. Yeah, warm town rocks. Right. There you go. All roads will lead back to Worcester. And yes, and this is especially, I think, important Labor Day to emphasize that right now, labor unions are at their highest in terms of favorability in the country that they have been in quite a while. 47 percent, according to Gallup, a poll that came out a few days ago, think that labor unions in the U.S. should have more influence than they do.

today, a record high in the past quarter century, and roughly double the 23% who want unions to have less influence. This is a completely changing paradigm here in terms of how this country feels about labor unions versus 10, 20 years ago. And one day, maybe, hopefully we can be interesting to talk to somebody about, you know, what has caused that? Because there is a sort of like a, almost like a feedback loop. Biden, we've obviously listed many of his faults. One of his strengths was his National Labor Relations Board and their focus on labor. He went down with the first president to go down to walk on a picket line, at least in my lifetime, but maybe longer than that.

And largely because Bernie Sanders, he needed Bernie Sanders in his coalition to deliver some stuff. and again we are two and a half years away from actually just a year and a half away from May Day 2028 when Sean Fain had called for a general strike we will see if people are building towards that but in the meantime enjoy these speeches for Labor Day and have a great Labor Day we've got some sponsor for today's program, but we will be back live tomorrow, which is Tuesday, which always follows Mondays, at least these in this era. But sponsoring the program today is, yeah, things can change, is honestly one of my favorite sponsors or frankly products that I use. and I'm talking about Blue Land, look, you have limited space in your apartment,

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Buy a bunch of stuff because you're going to love it and you carry that 15% discount with you. We'll put that link and information in the podcast and YouTube description. Now for our annual Labor Day compilation, FDR, Mario Savio, John L. Lewis, Bernie Sanders, with the words of Eugene Debs, enjoy it, and we will see you live tomorrow. In September of 1915, Gene Debs gave his views of the war, then raging in Europe. I am not a capitalist soldier. I am a pro-laterer. I am a proletarian. revolutionist. I am opposed to every war but one. I am for that war with heart and soul. And that is the worldwide war of the social revolution. In that war, I am prepared to fight in any way the ruling class may make necessary, even to the barricades.

That is where I stand and where I believe the Socialist Party stands or ought to stand on the question of war. war. In June of 1918, with American troops now fighting in Europe, Deb spoke to a socialist gathering in Canton, Ohio. In this, his most famous speech, he outlined the socialist opposition to the war and gave his unqualified support to the Russian Revolution, which had just taken place under the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky. This was also the speech for which he was sentenced to jail. In the Middle Ages, the feudal lords and barons, the economic predecessors of the capitalist of our day, declared all wars, and their miserable serfs fought all the battles. The poor ignorant serfs had been taught to revere their

masters, to believe that when their masters declared war upon one another, it was their patriotic duty to fall upon each other and to cut one another's throats with a profit and glory of the lords and barons who held them in contempt. And that is war in a nutshell. It hasn't changed. The master class has always declared the wars, the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject classes had nothing to gain and all to lose, especially their lives. The ruling class has always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourself slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world, you, the people have never had a voice in declaring war. And strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

And here let me emphasize the fact, and it cannot be repeated too often, that the working class who fight all the battles, the working class who make the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely shed their blood and furnish the corpses, have never yet had a voice in either declaring war, or making peace. It is the ruling class that invariably does both. They alone declare war, and they alone make peace. Yours not to reason why, yours but to do or die. This is their model, and we object on the part of the awakening workers of this nation. Two weeks after he gave his Canton Ohio speech, Gene Debs was arrested and charged with violating the espionominole. violating the Espionage Act. Two months later, he was tried, found guilty of the charges, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. From FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Four Freedom's speech, which was actually the 1941 State of the Union address.

So this is 10, 11, almost 12 months before we entered World War II. and this is the speech where he laid out two, I guess, freedoms that go beyond the Constitution and basically said that, you know, we human beings have a right to economic security. And this is a fairly new theme at that point, and look where it got us in a good place, until, of course, the right wing, and the money in this country decided they had enough of that. But here's a clip from that speech now. As men do not live by bread alone,

they do not fight by armament alone. Those who man our defenses, and those behind them who build our defenses, must have the stamina and the courage, which come from unshatable, belief in the manner of life which they are defending. The mighty action that we are calling for cannot be based on a disregard of all the things worth fighting for.

The nation takes great satisfaction and much strength from the things which have been done to make its people conscious of their individual states in the preservation of democratic life in America. Those things have toughened the fiber of our people, have renewed their faith and strengthened their devotion to the institutions we make ready to protect. Certainly, this is no time for any of us to stop thinking about the social and economic problems, which are the root cause of the social revolution, which is today a supreme, factor in the world. For there is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy, the basic things expected by our people of their political

and economic systems are simple. They are equality of opportunity for you and for other. Job for those who can work. Security for those who need it. The ending of special privilege for the fuel. The preservation of civil liberties for all. The enjoyment of the fruits of scientific progress in a wider and constantly rising standard of living.

These are the simple, the basic things that must never be lost sight of in the turmoil and unbelievable complexity of our modern world. The inner and abiding strength of our economic and political system is dependent upon the degree to which they fulfill these expectations. Many subjects connected with our social economy call for immediate improvement. As examples, we should bring more citizens under the coverage of old age pensions and unemployment insurance. We should widen the opportunity for adequate medical care. We should plan a better system by which persons deserving or needing gainful employment may obtain it.

I have called for personal sacrifice, and I am assured of the willingness of almost all Americans to respond to that cause. A part of the sacrifice means the payment of more money in taxes. In my budget message, I will recommend that a greater portion of the cost of the payment of money in taxes. this great defense program be paid for from taxation than we are paying for today. No person should try or be allowed to get rich out of the program. And the principle of tax payments, in accordance with the ability to pay, should be constantly before our eyes to guide our legislation. If the Congress maintains these principles, the voters putting patriotism ahead of pocketbooks,

will give you their applause. In the future days, if we seek to make the cure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedom. It is freedom of speech and expression everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way, everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from one. which translated into world term, means economic understanding, which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants

everywhere in the world. The thought is freedom from fear, which translated into world terms, means a worldwide reduction of armament to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor

anywhere in the world. That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite vision. is for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb. To that new order, we oppose the greater conception, the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions

are late without fear. Since the beginning of our American history, we have been engaged in change in a perpetual, peaceful revolution, a revolution which goes on steadily, Quietly, adjusting itself to changing conditions without the concentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries working together in a friendly, civilized society. This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women and its faith in freedom under the guidance of growth. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those.

those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose to that high concept that can be no end, save victory. Okay, now this is a speech from John L. Lewis. He was probably one of the most famous labor union leaders in this country ever. He was the head of the United Mine Workers for, gosh, I don't know, 20-some-odd years, maybe more. And some of his best features, I think, come from the 30s, but I couldn't find one.

I found this one from, I think it was late 1952. He is in Charleston, West Virginia, and he is. He's endorsing Adelaide Stevenson in his run for president. But it's still a great union speech, and you really get a sense of just how powerful a speaker this guy was. So here it is. When all most unarmed, whole miners marching together as a symbol of their right to express themselves as free men, were opposed on the crest of Blair Mountain by 600 private soldiers maintained by the Logan County Cool Offwer.

Payed four by a royalty of 10 cents a ton on all coal-mined in that county and paid into a pool from which was drawn the money to buy rifles and ammunition and equipment for 600 mineguards. and to pay their salary and their keep. The same operators who leveled level those royalties new clad allowed to high heaven when the mine workers' unions suggested the living of a royalty of ten cents a ton to care for the mine workers whose help was destroyed or whose lives were abused in the coal mons. They said then that the right to levy royalties was merely the right of kings.

And pull off, I said it was also the right of coal miners, and we demonstrated that fact. Yes, and may I say to the miners in northern West Virginia, who may be listening tonight, Yet I remember when 25,000 men in those northern coal fields were evicted from her homes, by the associated coal operators, chief of which was a consolidation coal company. And through long winters and through starvation and disease, they fought to fight for the right to belong to their union and to mine coal for more than a twenty-six. cents a ton that the operators were paying at that time. 20 cents a ton.

We're mining a ton of coal, underground. Whether there isn't a man within the sound of my voice or in the state of West Virginia, as we could pick up a ton of coal and move at three inches for 20 cents. They froze in the winter. They did without medicine and medical attention and teachers for their children. for their children, they buried their dead, unkempt as they might be, in order that Mountaineers might be afraid, and in order that West Virginia and West Virginians might have a right to govern themselves and to select honorable men for a public office.

The same is true in the New River and the winding gulf. The same is true in all of the Pogonters in the Tug River. The same is true in the palm handle of West Virginia. The same is true on both banks of Malangahela River. And today, more than 100,000 hudel miners in this state in its several districts, they're working when they work under the rules of collect. bargaining and under wages and working conditions that American citizens have a right to enjoy and which no other root-lustic citizens should ask to them not to pay.

We intend to keep it that way. Can I come to West Virginia tonight to say a word of advice and coal miners? A word of advice to coal miners. And not alone, coal miners, but to a word of advice to coal miners. But to every citizen of West Virginia, who believes in proper treatment of his fellow citizens, and who likewise want to improve his profession or business by participation in the increased prosperity, which comes to a community or a state, when the people who work are properly compensated. What has become of the increased earnings of the West Virginia mine workers since they were organized at the end of the Republican Depression of 1929?

What has become of that money? Like everyone else, the mine worker was only able to retain for himself in any savings account but a small proportion of his earnings. because he spent it for the necessities of life. He spent it for shoes for the children, for increased education, for improved facilities in the hall, for a broader outlaw. And he spent it in his home community, and the businessmen of that community, and the professional men of that community,

and the churches of that community. And every institution in the state of West Virginia has benefited by its participation, and the increased wage standards brought to this state by the United Mine Workers of America. It isn't very long. It isn't very long. As a matter of fact, it's only 18 years. Since the wages in Logan County were a dollar and a half and a dollar 75 cents a day for a supposed 10 hours,

day but when true reality was a clean-up day and more often 14 and 15 hours. Almost better are the businessmen, the farmers, and the professional men of Logan County today because the mine workers have money to become their customers, to buy their goods, to buy their motor-cars, to receive their professional services, whether their medical manner of other attorneys or their practitioners in the profession. All of the citizens of West Virginia have shared in its improvement. And what is true in Logan County has been true in every other mining sector of the state. And what is true in the mining sections of West Virginia is likewise true in the chemical industry,

in the lumbering industry, in the railroad industry, and the limestone. industry and it's true of all of West Virginia do you want to change it and don't elect a hypocrite and a fool to be governor just come here from a great international convention of the United Mine Workers of whom I reckon with delegates from its several local unions which was in session in the Queen City of Cincinnati for about eight days And at that convention, I witnessed one of the most dramatic and marvelous exhibitions of enthusiasm and determination that has been mile off the sea. 2,8005 elected delegates from the coal mines of this country, from the Cascade Mountains of Washington to the warrior field of Alabama,

from the Amherstite jurisdiction of Pennsylvania to the far-plung mines of New Mexico. And those 2,805 men, after due consideration, adopted a resolution by a rising, standing, unanimous vote to urge upon the mine workers of this country and all other members of organized labor that they refuse to take a professional soldier for president of the United States, but that they take a grave humanitarian and public spirit as a citizen in the person of Adlai E. Stevenson as a recommendation. Men must have represented the sentiment of the man at home. Surely that demonstrates that men who work in coal mines are thinking, men.

Surely it makes one believe that they understand the problems of life in America and the burden and the responsibilities of rarling and educating a family to their proper place in the community of citizenship. 28005 delegates responsible to nobody but the men in their home community who elected them by unanimous vote instructed the officers of your organization to do everything possible to urge our membership. and all other citizens similarly situated, to cast aside and push away the alluring, siren voice of those candidates who represent the concentrated wealth and power of the

American industry and financial world, and who walk to elect their man in the White House so that he may make the rules for you and I and those similar and sexuality. So I am here for that purpose, and I come here also to say that in this great state, they would like to have you, yet the miners of this state will take my counsel and advice because they may believe to some degree in the responsibility of what I say I would like to have the mine workers of this great state and other states

not only vote for Honorable Adlai E. Stevenson for President of the United States but vote for Bill Mullen as governor of West Virginia and Harvey Kildare as Senator. Okay, so next up is a four-minute song by a guy named Uncle George Jones.

He was a United Mine Worker, and he was a mine worker back in the late 1800s. He went blind in the around, I guess, the second decade of the 20th century, around like 1915 or something. He went blind. He was working in the Alabama Mines, and he was singing essentially about the revival

of the United States. mine workers, and as well as singing the praises of unions. He mentions John L. Lewis in this, and obviously, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, so check it out, enjoy it, interesting song, and we still got more. In 1903, when Mr. Roosevelt took his seat, said to President John L. Lewis in Union we might be, Come let us fight together As gone to lead the plan

By this time another year We'll have the union back again Hooray For the union we must stand With the only organization Protect the living men, boys It makes our women happy Our children clap the hand

The city's big folks outstiming and old frying pan And the President and John L. L. L. L. L. S. signed a decree. A call for Mitch and Rainy Tower off on May 23. Go down in Alabama, organize every living man. Spread the news all over the land. We've got the union back again. Hooray. Hooray. Because a union we must stand.

This is the only organization. Protect the living man. makes our women happy Our children clap the hand The city's big stick and the Good folks are steaming and old drying fan There's one law president

Rovey a fast as many operators' men Give all the men the right to organize Join the Union of our choice When the President had passed the law We all it shouts with joy When they said no operator's sheriff of all Shouldn't bother the Union boys Hooray!

Who rang! for the union we must stand That the only organization Protect the living men, boys It makes our women happy Out here and clap the hand The city fish stick and the good folk jobs Steaming in old drying pan

In 1932 We're sometimes sad in blue Travelling round from place to please Trying to find some way to do We're successful to find a job The weight is well so small The scarce to live in the summertime Almost starving to fall

Hooray Hooray! Well, the union we must stand At the old age, organization Protect the Living Man, boys It makes our women happy Out children clap the hand The city fishedick and the good folk-job

Steaming and old frying pan Before we got our union back It's very sad to say Old blue shapes and overall What a topage of the day They were so full of patches And so badly toned Our wife had a sofa about our

Before they could be won Hooray Hooray For the union we must stand It's the only organization Protect the living men Boys It makes our women happy

Out here and clap the hand The silly Big stick And the good Foked up Teaming and old frying fan

Now when our Union men Walked up Got the good tools On their back Correct machines And the fine See sight

Some brand new Mellow block Hand Quine silk stock And the flow Shines you They glitter and gas The sun

Got dollars In the foggues One good cigar Boy, this was The Union done Hooray Hooray For the Union

We must stand The old reorganization Protect the living men, boys It makes our women happy Out children clap the hand The little bishop and the good folks are steaming in the old frying fan Before we got our union back Our wives was always mad

When they went out to the church The princess was all they had But since we got our union back They're happier all the while Sir concerned of every kind To meet with every style Hooray Hooray

For the union we must stand That the only organization Protect the living men Boys It makes our women happy Out here and clap the hand The city fish stick and a good folk job Steaming and old frying fan

Okay And now we have a it's a seven minute clip of a speech that Mario Savio gave in December of

1964 at Sprow Hall in University of California, Berkeley. And this is a pretty famous speech now, it's getting a lot more attention these days. Actually part of this

notion of putting your body upon the gears in the machine. That was quoted in Battlestar Galactica during a labor scene. And Tim de Christopher's going to prison, you know, a speech that he gave after his conviction sort of evoked this moment from Mario Savio. And it's interesting, people are talking about it these days, and it's in the consciousness. so I thought you'd be interested.

What's also particularly interesting is he addresses what's going on on the campus with some of the union workers. And, you know, this, if you recall that piece by Kevin Drum, which talked about the cleave between union and many of like the student leaders. This guy was, Savio was from the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. and this cleave ended up really hurting the Democratic movement and the progressive, the Democratic Party and the progressive liberal movement because people were split into sort of two camps, social liberalism and economic liberalism. And we've talked about that on the show. It's interesting, so he just, in passing, mentions what's going on with the union workers there. and we've also talked on the show about hopefully how that cleave is closing.

So here is this clip from Mario Savio. Have a great Labor Day, folks. You know, I just want to say one brief thing about something the previous speaker said. I didn't want to spend too much time on that because I don't think it's important enough, but one thing is worth considering. He's a nominal head on organization. supposedly representative of the undergraduates, whereas in fact, under the current directors that derives its authority

has delegated power from the administration, it's totally unrepresentative of the graduate students in TAs. But he made the following statement, I quote, I would ask all those who are not definitely committed to the FSM cause to stay away from demonstration. All right, now listen to this. For all upper division students who are interested in alleviating the TAs, shortage problem, I would encourage you to offer your services to department, chairman,

and advisors. That has two things, a strike breaker and a faint. I'd just say one other thing about a union problem. Upstairs, you may have noticed already on the second floor of Sproul Hall, locals 40 and 127 of the Painters Union are painting the inside of the second floor of Sproul Hall. Now, apparently that action had been planned sometime in the past. I've tried to contact those unions, unfortunately, and tears my heart out. There is bureaucratized as the administration. It's difficult to get through to anyone in authority there.

Very sad. We're still making an attempt. Those people up there have no desire to interfere with what we're doing. I would ask that they be considered and that they not be heckled in any way. And I think that, you know, while there's unfortunately no sense of solidarity at this point between unions and students, there at least need be no, you know, excessively hard feelings between the two groups. Now, there are at least two ways in which sit-ins and civil disobedience and whatever, at least two major ways in which you can occur. One, when a law exists, is promulgated, which is totally unacceptable to people, and they violate it again and again and again until it's rescinded.

Appealed. All right. But there's another way. There's another way. Sometimes the form of the law is such to render impossible its effective violation as a method to have it repealed. Sometimes the grievances of people extend to more than just a law, extend to a whole mode of arbitrary power, a whole mode of arbitrary exercise of arbitrary power. And that's what we have here.

We have an autocracy which runs this university. It's managed. We were told the following. If President Kerr actually tried to get something more liberal out of the regents in his telephone conversation, why didn't he make some public statement to that effect? And the answer we received from a well-meaning liberal was the following. He said, would you ever imagine the manager of a firm making a statement publicly in opposition to his board of directors? That's the answer.

I ask you to consider if this is a firm, and if the board of regions are the board of directors, and if President Kerr, in fact, is the manager, and I tell you something, the faculty are a bunch of employees, and we're the raw materials, but we're a bunch of wrong materials. But we're a bunch of raw materials that don't mean to have any process upon us. Don't mean to be made into any product. Don't mean to end up being bought by some clients of the university. Be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone for human beings. It brings me to the second mode of civil disobedience.

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take. part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all. It will be interpreted to mean, unfortunately, by the bigots who run the examiner, for example, that you have to break anything, 1,000 people sitting down someplace, not letting anybody buying, nothing happening can stop any machine, including this machine, and it will stop.

We're going to do the following. And the greater the number of people, the safer they'll be, and the more effective it will be. We're going, once again, to march up to the second floor of Sprow Hall. And we're going to conduct our lives for a while in the second floor of Sprow Hall. We'll show movies, for example. We tried to get enchant amour. Unfortunately, that's tied up in the court because of a lot of squeamish moral mothers for a moral America and other people on the outside. The same people who get all their ideas out of the San Francisco Examiner.

Sad. Sad. Sad. But Mr. Landau has gotten to some other films. Likewise, we'll do something. We'll do something which hasn't occurred at this university. in a good long time. We're going to have real classes up there. There are going to be freedom schools conducted up there. We're going to have class in the First and Fourteenth Amendment. We're going to spend our time learning about the things this university is afraid that we know. We're going to learn about freedom up there and we're going to learn by doing. Now, we've had some good long rallies. We've had some good long rallies. And I think I think I'm sicker of rallies than anyone else here.

This is not going to be long. I'd like to introduce one last person, one last person before we enter Sprow Hall. Yeah. And the person is Joan Baez.