I carry a Union card because it carries me into the hearts and thoughts and sympathetic understandings of millions of other average human beings with problems like my own. My card guarantees me a decent living wage, decent working conditions, and time to enjoy my home and family. It entitles me to the benefits of knowledge and experience of my fellow associates. It gives me social contact I enjoy. It creares within me confidence, good fellowship and a strong sense of security and well being.

It promotes the brotherhood of man through honest work, fair bargaining, "live and let live" and a just reward for all. It stands for self support and mutual advancement, which means unending progress. It advances patriotism, elevates my standards of thought and living, permits me time for cultural pursuits and spirtitual thinking. It puts experience and mutual assistance behind weaker links in the chain of life and keeps the pace a steady one for all. It makes understandable and unforgettable the brotherhood of man.

These are the reasons wht I am a labor unionist and why I carry a union card.

Written by Charles Daly, a 38-year Teamster member of Local 753 and published in the 1960 of Teamster Magazine.

With corporate greed, daly attacks on working men and women, and the continuing war on workers never are these words more true than today.