Dan Quisenberry Quotes

... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

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.

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

Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

No labor strike will last more than 15 minutes.

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

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.

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

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

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

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.

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.

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

No society can tolerate strikes that endanger the general welfare, such as a strike that shuts down an entire industry. Nor can any government tolerate a strike aimed at its authority. But the “right to strike” is absolutely necessary to the cohesion, if not indeed to the survival, of the union; without it it cannot discharge its function.

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.

A strike cannot be tolerated under any circumstances for it would be a stab at our armed might.

The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.

The strike is the weapon of the industrial jungle.

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.

The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer on the picket line, the stronger the commitment. A lot of workers think they make their commitment by walking off the job when nobody sees them. But you get a guy to walk off the field when his boss is watching and, in front of the other guys, throw down his tools and march right to the picket line, that is the guy who makes our strike. The picket line is a beautiful thing because it makes a man more human.

We are not a nation of strikes and inaction. We will not be preached at by militant unionists with a crap whippet and a chip on each shoulder.

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.

At the time there was a hospital strike in New York and the Catholic hospitals were part of a general consortium, and the head of the consortium had decided that they were finally going to replace some of the striking workers. And I hear [John] O'Connor yelling, 'Over my dead body will you replace any of those workers! They have a right to strike.' So I figured, 'This is interesting.'