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Exactly as business men find they must often work through corporations, and as it is a constant tendency of these corporations to grow larger, so it is often necessary for laboring men to work in federations, and these have become important factors of modern industrial life.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He draws a parallel between the necessity of corporations in business and federations in labor.

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