Sarah Sutton Quotes

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.

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.

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.

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

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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.

The strike is the weapon of the industrial jungle.

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.

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

We have tried everything to prevent this, but they have got too powerful, and there is nothing for us but for our friends to go into their meetings and disturb the harmony of them, and create division.

Mitchell is only a common coal miner who has worked with his hands for 15 years, and is now a labor agitator. Any negotiations with him would unduly recognize a mere rabble-rouser..

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.

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.

Strikers are streaky creatures.