John N. Mitchell Quotes

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

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.

The hospital strikers have demonstrated that you don't get a job done unless you show the Man you're not afraid...If you're not willing to pay that price, then you don't deserve the rewards or benefits that go along with it.

Labor cannot on any terms surrender the right to strike.

The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.

I am glad to see a system of labor ... under which laborers can strike when they want to.

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

The labor movement was a reaction to capitalism.

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

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

Not a penny off the pay. Not a minute on the day.

The strike is the weapon of the industrial jungle.

We back Solidarity [the Polish trade union], and bust our unions.

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.

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

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..

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.

I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.

It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.

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

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

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

I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions.

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.