"Unionism" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with horror or with satisfaction, according to their views of events in Russia taken as a whole. If they do not believe that there has been a social revolution in Russia, they must regard the present position of the Russian Trades Unions as the reward of a complete defeat of Trade Unionism, in which a Capitalist government has been able to lay violent hands on the organization which was protecting the workers against it. If, on the other hand, they believe that there has been a social revolution, so that ...
— The Crisis in Russia - 1920 • Arthur Ransome
... of Workers Act, by which every worker will be held to his locality, to his own enormous advantage. And it will end strikes, and trades unionism will deservedly crumble. In future these men will be able to settle down, and with God's blessing bring children into the world, and their condition will be a delight unto themselves and ...
— My Neighbors - Stories of the Welsh People • Caradoc Evans
... visited; but, as the rebels had driven him away because of his Unionism, and taken his horses, his property ...
— Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive • Alf Burnett
... is not a private letter or public utterance on which to base the Tribune's statements. Greeley's attacks, however, became frequent now. Having at last swung round to the "no compromise" policy of the radical wing of his party, he found it easy to condemn the attitude of Weed and the Unionism of Seward, against whom his lieutenants at Albany were waging a fierce battle for his election as United ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
... the most unprepossessing groups, and to hear the language, to fancy one's-self in Charleston, or some other nest of treason. From all the men who came to the city we did not, in a single instance, hear one good, hearty expression of Unionism, but our "Southern brethren and their rights," and this "wicked war," &c., &c., were the topics of conversation, and it was safe to set it down, that this was the Peace wing of that ...
— The Great North-Western Conspiracy In All Its Startling Details • I. Windslow Ayer
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