Daily Worker Quotes

The strike is the weapon of the industrial jungle.

The number of men out on strike exceeds that of any other industrial contest in the history of our country.

No matter what the motive of the employer, any strike aimed at him is in physical fact a strike against ourselves and our country. No matter if he claims or seems to be in non-essential production, no strike is proper, for strikes are infectious and damaging to morale.

Strikes are a crime ... the law of jungles and primitive societies.

We have reached the point where we must advise the miners … to either continue working under these unjust and tyrannical conditions or counsel a strike.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.

Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

The denial by employers of the right of employees to organize and the refusal by employers to accept the procedure of collective bargaining lead to strikes and other forms of industrial strife or unrest, which have the intent or the necessary effect of burdening or obstructing commerce.

Economic disputes are rarely the real cause of a strike. We do not have a strike because negotiations break down; negotiations break down because the situation is a strike situation.

The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.

It is not right for public officials to bring scabs and gunmen into any state. I am directly opposed to it myself, but if it is a question of strike or you go into slavery, then I say strike until the last one of us drop into our graves.

No labor strike will last more than 15 minutes.

No strike is a loss or failure to the workers, even if the point sought is not gained for the time being. If naught else they teach the capitalists that they are expensive luxuries.

Thank God we have a system of labor where there can be a strike.

Look at your [labor] strikes. They are proof that the men are desperate.

No better strike leader than John N. Mitchell has ever emerged in any time of industrial strife.

Strikers are streaky creatures.

I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.

A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league.

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.

Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers.

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.