Trade Union Membership

Famous quotes containing the words trade union, trade, union and/or membership:

    “The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.”
    —Ernest Bevin (1881–1951)

    “The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvellous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can’t decipher the cyrillic alphabet.”
    —Clive James (b. 1939)

    “The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”
    —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)