Labor Strikes Quotes

Fight labor's demands to the last ditch and there will come a time when it seizes the whole of power, makes itself sovereign and takes what it used to ask.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

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

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

The Socialists are no fomenters of strikes; they know too well that a strike is a two-edged weapon, wounding the proletariat more deeply and more grievously than the capitalist. But, when the strike is declared, they take their part in the fight. They organize and assist the workers, protecting them against the snares of the police and the brutality of the military, and giving them such moral and material support as is in their power

I do not think I will die, but whether I do or not, the company will pursue the same policies.

[Ronald] Reagan bitterly hated unions and wanted them destroyed. This began with the air controllers' strike and went on from there.

I will use the power of the government of the United States within my control to prevent the labor unions ... from destroying the open shop.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

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.

I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.

I look back at history, and some of the worst governments we've ever had, you know one of the first things they ever did? They went after the trade unions.

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

There is not the slightest doubt that Lewis is working and has worked during the past two years at least as an integral part of the pro-Nazi fifth column, aiming at a negotiated peace with Hitler, and at the Nazi subjugation of the United States itself.... This is treason.

The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge difference. By the late 1930s the business world was already trying to find ways to beat it back.

I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

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

The [American] South and the Communists brought out the worst in each other.

I'm sure that a previous generation of Jews who published radical newspapers and journals would be critical of [David] Simon's projects. These were left wingers who suffered casualties in some of bloodiest strikes in American history.