James Larkin Quotes on work

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland... view

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The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry... view

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Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation... view

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Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods... view

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For years and years I have done the work I was born for... view

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A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers... view

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It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow... view

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