Under present plans there will be no voice or law or custom to protect labor, no trades unions, no eight-hour laws, no factory legislation,--nothing of that great body of legislation built up in modern days to protect mankind from sinking to the level of beasts of burden.
Du Bois warns about the lack of protections for laborers under current plans, highlighting the need for labor rights.
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