Public Schools made by Unions Poster

In America only the wealthy children went to school in the 1800's and early 1900's, while the less fortunate went to work in sweatshops, fields, and mines to help support their families. To fight the unsafe working conditions and lower wages received by children, which caused fewer adults to be hired, American Unions fought for the creation of public schools for all children to learn and have a decent childhood. Safety & health, and an opportunity to accomplish the American dream were born for the working man. Unfortunately, today the rich again would like to return to this form of exploitation by dwindling away the public schools system, hurting the poor and middle classes and limiting their opportunities of a respectable and decent life. They only want two classes of people, the rich and the poor. Thus, the relentless attacks against unions for decades have continued, for unions are the only real voice of the working man. With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than the other association of men. - Clarence Darrow, The Railroad Trainman, 1909