Andrew Eldritch Quotes

Players are ready to play, We're not on strike. It's a lockout.

It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.

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

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 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.

The labor union is a great scheme to interrupt work. It speeds up loafing

I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric - and it was not very nice.

Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.

Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

Labor cannot on any terms surrender the right to strike.

The strike weapon is overboard, not only for the duration of the war, but after the war too.

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 most fervid demand, however, of all the workers on strike was for a shorter day … 10½ hours instead or 13 hours as formerly, or even 14 and 16 reckoning the time of cleaning machinery.

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

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.

Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for you by passing legislation, you are taking a direct action against the employer.

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

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

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.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.

I regret the 1998 - 99 lockout. I regret that we didn't work harder to educate our players and our owners about what the damage would be. I never can quite come up with the answer on what else we should have done, but I always blame a part of the problem on us and some part on the players.

Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.