Refusal to Participate Quotes
Camu was a committed leftist.
Biddle articulated the strategy of William Henry Harrison's presidential campaign of 1840:
At the time, most company owners and managers refused to bargain collectively with employee elected organizations. Hoover was then an exceptionally modern business person who realized the importance of good working relations between management and labor and advocated collective bargaining. However, as he got deeper into partisan politics, he backed off urging this. Nationally, in the 1960s collective bargaining had become an instrument of basic sound management, but more and more managements returned to simply refusing to bargain with employee organizations and instead strengthened their managers and supervisors and adopted (by choice and by government regulation) more and more modern, healthy, safe, efficient and attractive working conditions and policies. By the 21st century, labor unions and employee organizations had lost their attractiveness while managers were more attentive to workers and there were very few private companies engaged in collective bargaining.
Columnist Joseph Alsop was hosting a dinner party and as Harrimann arrived, he ran into Richard M. Nixon who had just defeated Helen Gahagan with dirty, smear campaign tactics. The Governor started to leave. This was what he told his hosts. Mrs. Alsop implored him to stay. He did, but at dinner, turned over his plate, turned off his hearing aid and refused to eat or speak
