He spoke much that day about the hardworking laborers and workers’ rights, about how hard they work and how desperate and needy their lives are:
“What hardship these coal miners have to suffer, how poor and needy they are! It is necessary for the directors of companies and the owners of factories to allot a certain share, however small it may be, to their laborers so that their condition may be improved and they may be deterred from striking.”
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha aboard the Cedric, March 28, 1912; recorded by Mahmud Zarqani, His secretary and chronicler during His travels in the West; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’)