Striking screenwriters may inspire less sympathy than factory workers who down tools, or even the cash-strapped graduate students who went on strike across California last year.
As president of the American Railway Union, which he helped to found in 1893, he led its members in a sympathy strike against the Chicago Pullman Company in 1894.
When I was really young, I remember the world's sort of divided into people who were either sympathetic towards striking unions or thought that they were kind of disgraceful leftwingers.