Prosenjit Chatterjee Quotes

The labor movement is our brother's keeper! The labor movement is our sister's keeper!

I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions.

A divided labor movement hurts the prospects of union members and it makes me very angry.

The Labor Community is carrying on … a very significant and instructive struggle.

Heed this cry that comes from the hearts of men. Organize the Unorganized.

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

The Labor Party is a body that does not seek political life, and does not fight for its life.

There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. We'll work for it, sisters and brothers. We'll stand for it. Together. Each of us. To bring out the best in America. To bring out the best in ourselves, and each other.

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.

It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. They are always marching and singing. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened their months to sing.

Solidarity Forever

When wage controls and other legal restrictions on Canadian workers of the government's only answer to that country's deepening economic problems, the labor movement's response has to be fundamentally political.

I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.

The toilers have awakened to the new found power of organized effort.

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

I represent the working people. I’m not what you’d call a wine and cheese type of guy.

I am a Union man!

Duty of the Catholic Worker to Join Organized Labor

Any member of the party who … advocates crime, sabotage, or other methods of violence as a weapon of the working class to aid in its emancipation, shall be expelled from membership of the party.

Power? Nine workers out of ten still unorganized, and union dues going to bribe middle class politicians. You call that power?

If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop.

We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.

There is no way whereby our labor movement may be assured sustained progress in determining its policies and its plans other than sincere democratic deliberation until a unanimous decision is reached. This may seem a cumbrous, slow method to the impatient, but the impatient are more concerned for immediate triumph than for the education of constructive development.