samuel gompers, the president of the afl in his final speech to union delegates in el paso, texas in4 urged the delegates to contain and maintain their view of voluntary unionism. he said if you're going to course workers, you're going to lose the energy that naturally exists within an organization that brought together through voluntary means. when you have adherence as opposed to bodies, union movement can be stronger. instead of spending time organizing workers, their spending time playing politics and a lot of workers must country disagree with their political stance and the fact that there are literally hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars playing politics every two years and that turns workers off. gallup shows that 71% of americans have a favorable opinion. the important part of that pole was the next question -- are you interested in joining a union and 58% of workers said they had no interest whatsoever. well they are popular in the idea and concept is something people support, the idea of compulsion and forces something americans reject. host: if a union does dec

samuel gompers, the immortal words there is no right to strike against the public safety by anyone, anybody, anywhere, any time vice president pence famously showed his courage on january six, 2001, amid the riot when amid the riot, he refused to leave the bent as he was on returning to his duty to. as the constitution puts it, open the the certificates, close quote quote. mr. pence has given us a deeply affecting account of this in his new memoir, so help me god. it's a wonderful title by the way, and an extraordinary book. it recounts how after a harrowing conversation on january five, when he informed the president that the didn't grant vice president the powers to do what the president wanted, mr. pence went back to his own office, sat down and looked around the portraits. jefferson, adams, teddy roosevelt, coolidge and one who wasn't vice president lincoln. and he himself thinking of the book of hebrews and, the cloud of witness who everything we do, and the call to quote, throw off everything that hinders close quote quote, let us run with perseverance, the race marked out for us clos

definitive stop to it, not only by having the national guard come in, but by his response to samuel gompers. and so if coolidge had not been that, if he had been more conciliatory and said, well, let's let's negotiate or something like that, it's quite possible that there would have been copycat efforts all over the place. it was tinder dry in 1919. it was the year of record numbers of strikes, including a gigantic strike in steel industry, in the coal industry and so forth. and many people were worried whether this would just lead to upheaval after upheaval. and particularly in massachusetts, which, as i mentioned, had a very heavy population of foreign born. coolidge was very sensitive to that and most because he needed some of those votes to win, but also because i think his his vision of progressivism was at this only as a point that only came to me really yesterday thinking about it, i'll quickly share maybe some will object or more to qualify. its rather strikingly similar to benjamin disraeli's one nation conservatism that he propounded or tory democracy in the 1860s. the idea being

samuel gompers, the president of the afl in his final speech to union delegates in el paso, texas in4 urged the delegates to contain and maintain their view of voluntary unionism. he said if you're going to course workers, you're going to lose the energy that naturally exists within an organization that brought together through voluntary means. when you have adherence as opposed to bodies, union movement can be stronger. instead of spending time organizing workers, their spending time playing politics and a lot of workers must country disagree with their political stance and the fact that there are literally hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars playing politics every two years and that turns workers off. gallup shows that 71% of americans have a favorable opinion. the important part of that pole was the next question -- are you interested in joining a union and 58% of workers said they had no interest whatsoever. well they are popular in the idea and concept is something people support, the idea of compulsion and forces something americans reject. host: if a union does dec