Employer-Employee Relations Quotes
Virtually every advance for the working class in England (and the other countries including America) was labeled “socialism” by the conservative economic factions of the time. However, socialists were strong advocates of all these economic reforms and even in the 19th century their impact was recognized.
At the time, it did seem impossible that labor and capital would ever have harmonious relations. But the notion that slavery would solve the problem is as preposterous as anything ever entered into the American political dialogue. But there were many in the South, and some in the North, who actually believed it. Even 150 years later, while labor and capital relations were much better than pre Civil War, they still could not be described as “harmonious” or “friendly”.
Norris was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives when the Taft-Hartley Act was debated. The pressure was intense. He told union leaders in his district:
After a CIO retail clerks’ union led a strike against Montgomery Ward, Bridges’ union declared that their union and other unions should oppose any labor strikes during World War II.
Ford was among the early attackers of the cigarette. He announced that he would refuse to employ smokers {600552}.
