B. H. Roberts: The hosts of men that are engaged in the several trades have found it necessary in some way or other to protect themselves, that they may command a reasonable price for that labor....[W]hatever the excesses may be, and however much we may regret them, nevertheless organization and union on the part of labor became an absolute necessity to the working masses.1

Joseph F. Smith: There can be no objections to a firm and persistent contention for the right of labor, if the contention is maintained in the spirit of reason and fairness.2

J. Reuben Clark: I have not approved and do not approve of capital's weapons--the blacklist, lockouts, and grinding out of the maximum returns for the minimum of wage outlay, even the imposition of starvation wages, that too often have been capital's means of dealing with labor in the past. These have worked great injustices that must not be repeated.3

Howard W. Hunter: Honorable employment is honest employment.... Honorable employment is also remunerative. It provides enough income so that we may be self-sufficient and able to support our families...4

Esther Peterson: At this time, my economic philosophy was beginning to take shape: There was something wrong with an economic system that depended on workers' labor but gave workers little or no say about their working conditions.5

Hugh Nibley: You shall not appeal to the iron law of wages, paying a worker as little as you can because he is desperate for work, and this applies to strangers, the wetbacks, as well...6

Vernon H. Jensen: Unions and collective bargaining have to be accommodated in an enterprise society. Otherwise, the principle of freedom would be whittled into...Collective bargaining will last as long as the enterprise principle prevails.7

James W. Lucas & Warner P. Woodworth: [T]he practice of many Utah firms which pay workers the federal minimum wage or other low compensation, while legal, is not commensurate with Christian managerial actions....Giving workers the lowest possible pay is not only immoral, but shortsighted.8

NOTES
1.	B. H. Roberts, Conference Report (April 1903): 97.
2.	Joseph F. Smith, Gospel Doctrine, comp. John A. Widtsoe (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1939), 415.
3.	Cited in Lamond Tullis, "Mormonism and Revolution in Latin America," BYU Studies 16 (Winter 1976): 241.
4.	Howard W. Hunter, "Prepare for Honorable Employment," Ensign (Nov. 1975): 122.
5.	Esther Peterson (with Winifred Conkling), Restless: The Memoirs of Labor and Consumer Activist Esther Peterson (Washington, D.C.: Caring, 1995), 38.
6.	Hugh Nibley, Approaching Zion, ed. Don E. Norton (Salt Lake City & Provo: Deseret Book, FARMS, 1989), 431-32.
7.	Vernon H. Jensen, "Philosophical, Legal, and Practical Considerations of Collective Bargaining in an Enterprise Society," Dialogue 3 (Summer 1968): 119-120.
8.	James W. Lucas & Warner P. Woodworth, Working Toward Zion (Salt Lake City, Aspen Books, 1999), 262-63.