...Pacific Northwest Abraham Lincoln once said: Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. As you make your decision, please help us keep our good paying labor jobs. Thank You. Tom Isle Great...

...press quoted endlessly Lincoln's own statements on the relationship between capital and labor: Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. [It] has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor,...

...slavery. As Lincoln articulated this attitude: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed...Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much higher consideration." Lincoln extolled "the free hired laborer" and "the prudent penniless beginner...

...NLRA—and to the idea expressed by President Lincoln in his first Annual Message to Congress: "Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed." This period of history, in which the Reagan-Bush assumption that one side of the bargaining table should...

...labor theory holds that "labor is prior to, and independent of, capital; that, in fact, capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed — that labor can exist without capital, but that capital could never have existed without labor....

..."nobody works unless capital excited them to work." On the contrary, declared Lincoln, "capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had notarsi existed." Lincoln also rejected the Marxist notion that classes, once forged, remained barriers...

...Wealth. Share the Wealth: Labor Owning Capital Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. (Abraham Lincoln, "Annual Message of the US President," 37th Congress, Second Session, December 3,...

...his first annual message to Congress (1861): 'Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.' One notes that this judgement was made at a time when industrializing capital was about successfully...

...opposite point of view: that labor is prior to, and independent of capital; that, in fact, capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed; that labor can exist without capital, but that capital could never have existed without labor. Hence...

...first annual message to Congress, and his words resonate with us today. Said the President: "Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed."51 Indeed, he saw economic democracy as an integral part of political democracy. Lincoln also...