 |
Song for the Baker Full eighteen hours under the ground, Toiling and making bread! Are we alive or dead? . . . Are we men with thought and restless will, Or are we but batches of dough, That take their shape from the pan they will? Is what I would like to know. |
(Enoch George Adams, St. Helen, Oregon, ca. 1884, cited in Stuart B. Kaufman, A Vison of Unity: History of the Bakery and Confectionary Workers International Union)