Every broken strike in recent years, every legally plundered trades-union treasury, every closed shop made into an open shop, has driven the members of the working-class directly hurt over to socialism by hundreds and thousands. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But another element in the trades-union situation must be reckoned with if trades-unionism is to be saved. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The corporation and the trades-union have forgotten that they are the creatures of the state. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Besides, Rosalind Wells was in Leeds talking to trades-union organisers for the Fabian Society. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In a constituency which had much casual and no trades-union labour to speak of, the meeting would be one of those which enabled the intellectuals of the Party to get it ‘off their chests.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)
When the overseer came through the room, no exultant look nor envious glance suggested anything unusual, for this band of "rag-pickers" had its honor, which it held to as closely as the most compact trades-union in the land. ❋ Various (N/A)
With the view to masking their real object, they took advantage of the fact that the square and compass, the plumbline, etc., were symbols of speculative masonry in the temple form of Astral worship, they publicly claimed to be only a trades-union for the prosecution of the arts of architecture and operative masonry; but, among themselves, were known as Free and Accepted Masons or Freemasons. ❋ J. H. Hill (N/A)
On the other hand, the journalists who take the labor side of the question, the trades-union leaders, and a large number of the workmen themselves, hold that we have little or nothing to fear from our foreign rivals; that the depression, like those atmospheric ones of which our American cousins are constantly warning us, will pass away, and leave us with better times to follow. ❋ Various (N/A)
This Association -- now four years old -- is not a common trades-union, nor any impotent combination to resist the law of supply and demand. ❋ Various (N/A)
During the debate at the congress, I gave warning that the resolution on trades - unions adopted by the majority would not live until the next congress, because the new economic orientation would demand a complete revision of the trades-union strategy. ❋ Trotsky, Leon (1930)
Stalin imagined that Purcell and other trades-union leaders were ready or able, in a difficult moment, to lend support to the Soviet republic against the British bourgeoisie. ❋ Trotsky, Leon (1930)
It cannot be tolerated that any free association of men in Canada shall arbitrarily and despotically deprive any individual of his right to earn an honest living in Canada for himself or his family in any employment for which he may be qualified, simply because he refuses to become a member of any particular trades-union or labor association. ❋ Unknown (1919)
Even his railways and banks have servants; the chief trades-union of the English railroad men is the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. ❋ Henry Louis (1921)
He has, indeed, reached such a pass in the latter department that it has become almost impossible for him to think of himself save as an obedient member of some vast, powerful and unintelligibly despotic organization -- a church, a trades-union, a political party, a tin-pot fraternal order, or what not --, and often he is a member of more than one, and impartially faithful to all. ❋ George Jean Nathan (1920)
The Roman Catholic Church recognises in Social Democracy its greatest enemy, and has made great efforts to counteract its advance by fostering a sort of Roman Catholic trades-union for a religious body of Socialists. ❋ Gerard, James W (1917)
Why did not Freemasonry die, along with the Guilds, or else revert to some kind of trades-union? ❋ Joseph Fort Newton (1913)
Shit, [the trade union] [union's] coming this, let's leave. ❋ Kukn_a69 (2022)
