"Violence is a tactic, and it’s to be used when it’s the appropriate tactic.”
“[Labor leaders and workers] couldn’t get access to strike, but they had a lot of cats, and they succeeded in putting cats in powerhouses,” she said. “And the cats — now, don’t think about the cats, OK? The cats would run around inside and short out the system and cause power blackouts. And that created enough chaos in the system” to get to “a negotiating position. Plus,they got rid of a lot of feral cats (Laughter)." - Judy Ancel, director of UM-Kansas City’s Institute for Labor Studies at Columbia University, NYC