Political Quotes

On the record
And until the policy of the state meets that experience with similar profundity conflict between the government and the trade union will rarely involve the desertion by the members of the association they have themselves made.
Said by
Harold J. Laski

Editor's note · Context

Laski argues that state policies must resonate with the experiences of trade union members to avoid conflict.

Share

More from Harold J. Laski

It is an attempt to give each man as similar a chance as possible to utilize what powers he may possess.

gutenberg.org

Nor do I see why it is unconstitutional for Labour, as in 1926, to withdraw from work in an orderly and coherent way.

gutenberg.org

But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.

gutenberg.org

We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation