Discuss the historical interpretation of Gompers’ article in 1890. Excerpt from: The Labor Movement is A Fixed Fact by Samuel Gompers, Address in Louisville, Kentucky. May 1890. My friends, we have met here today to celebrate the idea...that on May the first, 1890, the wage-workers of the world will lay down their tools in sympathy with the wage-workers of America, to establish a principle of limitations of hours of labor to eight hours for sleep, eight hours for work, and eight hours for what we will. The man who works the long hours has no necessities except the barest to keep body and soul together, so he can work. He goes to sleep and dreams of work; he takes his frugal lunch to work; he comes home again to throw himself down on a miserable apology for a bed so that he can get that little rest that he may be able to go to work again. He is nothing but a veritable machine. He lives to work instead of working to live. The laborer has been regarded as a mere producing machinebut the back of labor is the soul of man and honesty of purpose and aspiration. Our enemies would like to see this movement thrust into Hades, they would like to see it in a warmer climate, but I say to you that this labor movement has come to stay. We want eight hours and nothing less