By BERNARD STEPHENS GROUP of psychologists recently came up with the pai that dreams are "Y Outlets for suppressed LABOR— | Labor unions seriously )mprom; B domes mise American free- —Conscience of a ‘Conservative. ae immense and ever- ; 8 power of labor Constitutes a grave Sein Our economy.” te speech, Sept. 24, 1962 3 itt S righ ator Goldwater may be at, Ully tagged “the chief in Wouist of organized labor Neuington.” ‘orth American News- eS Paper Alliance, Nov. ‘7, : : 1958 . dey tions should be forbid- Of no.. ngage in any kind Political activity.” y —Conscience of a i ¢ Conservative. Goldy, ater would in effect b € original Wagner *Y turning control over Bai Dutes and collective ~cone back to the states. ; umnist Richard Wil- . in Des Moines Reg- wv Jan. 6, 1958 % »° AFL-CIO Committee feby ppitical Education has ined 53 rollcall votes 53; Goldwater voted € labor position on € has never cast a Otteg ie for a labor-sup- sition ill or a labor-backed —Hotel Union paper, . Jan, 16, 1958. Ment Betely favor enact- Wig» State right-to-work —Conscience of a Conservative. Mone a told... that many tng ‘ple skills and cannot Zot Bie because they did : ten ol education . . . Yho . Is that most people wucatinn® no skills have no b ae for the same rea- Nbitig Ow j : at intelligence or low SS : ae before Economic 15 ea New York, Jan. ca » 196 hostilities and fears. In that case, many Americans can find at least some good in the night- mares that have been disturbing their sleep ever since July 15 — the fateful day when the Repub- licans named Barry Goldwater their candidate for president. Goldwater for president? Even now, some weeks after the fact, it is a rather shocking thought that a man with such crude far- right views could get to be the nominee of a major party, and stand a chance to win the presi- dency and with it the awesome power and responsibility that goes with the office. But for the trade union mem- bers the nightmare is especially grotesque. Barry Goldwater is opposed to virtually: everything that unions stand for—medicare for the elderly, higher minimum pay, civil rights, the nuclear test ban, federal aid to educa- tion, the war against poverty, more public housing, etc. But more to the point, Gold- water is a sworn enemy of trade unionism itself, and on his own word would make use of the presidency to destroy unions if he could. The many anti-labor remarks of Goldwater over the years (some of them reprinted on this page) only partially reveal his distaste for workers who orga- nize into unions, and his con- tempt for the collective bargain- ing process itself. Goldwater, until recently ow- ner of the Arizona department stores which bear his name, re- sisted unionization of the stores. In the classic manner of the man-who’s-got-it-made, he de- ‘scribed collective bargaining as a “weakening of individal per- sonality and self-reliance.” But if not through collective bargaining, how would he have the wages and working condi- tions of the nation’s work force determined? His 1960 book, “Conscience of a Conservative,” put succinctly what Goldwater has in mind: “One way to check the un- ion’s power is. for. the govern- ment to dictate through com- pulsory arbitration the terms of employment throughout the en- tire industry. The other way is to disperse union power and thus extend freedom in labor- management relations.” French Canada an The inclusion of Quebec in the itinerary of Queen Elizabeth’s current visit to Canada has aroused much comment in the press of both French and English Canada. Most readers are acquainted with the views of their local daily newspapers. We reprint here excerpts from two French Canadian papers. From a comment in Le Devoir (Sept. 17) on the Queen’s visit: “Messrs. Pearson and Lesage have thought it good tactics to take advantage of the centenary of the preparatory conferences that prepared the 1867 compro-, mise, to have the Queen come and thus seem to lend their policy the sanction of the crown. This manoeuvre may permit Ottawa to rally Anglo- Canadian opinion and thus em- barrass the Conservative opposi- tion . . . This dubious utiliza- tion of the Crown also involves a sort of wager on the kind of reception the Queen will receive at Quebec... The Queen’s visit may be made use of in the cur- rent controversy, and we should not fall for this. The best would be for the visit to go off in an atmosphere of calm and decor- um, without too much fanfare, eagerness or popular enthusi- asm. For if we are too nice it may be too readily believed that we are satisfied”. bs * * “Why Wasn’t the Visit Can- celled?” asks editor of Combat Lucien Jacques: “This visit”, he observes, “is not only inopportune in the pre- sent historical context, but for many is actually an affront... At the very time when we are calling for a new pact between our two nations, enabling us to exercise our right of national self-determination, our political leaders have preferred to celeb- rate royally the centennary of the Quebec conference that gave us Confederation. “For French Canadians’, the editorial points out, the Crown “personifies British colonialism, domination, the Conquest”. It is the symbol] on which are fo- cussed “the humiliations, ran- cor and resentment, the aliena- tion, of a people exploited by an economic and political system whose source and consequences Vreven "WHATS YOUR POISON 2" To Barry Goldwater, workers banded together in unions have acquired so much power vis a vis their managements that he has had to stress (in a Senate speech in 1963) “how heavily the scales were weighted in fa- vor of labor unions and labor leaders,’ and to note the ‘pre- ferred position held by today’s unions in the economic, social and political scheme of things.” Trade unionists who have participated in negotiations with their employers will have to strain to withhold laughter at this fantasy concocted by Gold- water. And yet, it is upon such hobgoblins that Goldwater has built his proposals for dealing with unions — including the whole gamut of right-to-work laws, placing unions under anti- trust laws, outlawing industry- wide bargaining, forbidding un- ions to. engage in political ac- tion, etc., etc. George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, put the matter co- gently at a press conference af- ter Goldwater’s nomination, when he said of the senator: “I think he feels the country would be better off if we didn’t have trade unions.” Goldwater apparently feels the country would be better off without poor people tco. Of those on relief, he said: “I’m tired of professional chiselers walking up and down the streets who don’t work-and have no in- tention of working.” This was Goldwater’s contribution, in 1961, to the: debate over the wrecking .of the welfare pro- gram in Newburgh, N.Y., depriv- ing needy families of already pathetically. small assistance. “I would like to see every city in the country adopt this plan,” said Goldwater. In opposing medicare in the Senate in July Goldwater hit rock bottom with a statement that still has people reeling in disbelief: _ “To asume that a retired couple with an annual income of $2,000 is in serious financial Straits, or is incapable of pur- chasing health insurance, simp- ly does not jibe with reality.” That’s less than 40 bucks a week . . . and that statement was made by the Republican Party’s candidate for president of the United States. —From RSDWU Record the Queen's visit range far beyond the attributes of. the British.Crown.” Combat voices the warning that “A criminal attack on the Queen would serve neither the national demands of Quebec nor the cause of socialism. It would provoke, in English Canada and throughout the world such in- 'dignation as would render any dialogue impossible for a long time to come, as well as en- gendering a profound, violence- laden antagonism marked by mutual repraisals and acts of vengeance which would divide the two nations without Que- bec’s gaining thereby an ounce of independence.” “Lester Pearson and Jean Lesage have in our opinion com- mitted.a serious mistake in in-- viting the Queen. They imagin- ed that her presence would serve to give Confederation a new lease on life. The opposite may well be the result. Instead of making use of the Queen to put a feather in the hat of their ‘cooperative federalism,’ they should rather have invited her to bring back to us, on this contennial anniversary, the Brit- ish North America Act! That would have offered all Cana- dians, French and English alike, the opportunity to welcome the Queen of England with all the respect that is due to her. “Under the circumstances it would be better to postpone the visit until later, when wiser and more realistic political leaders will have given Canada, and its two nations, a new Constitu- tion.” ~ Loan Co. profits The average luan made by small loan companies is for $500 and the average inter- est rate is 18.5 percent. The largest of Canada’s 81 small loan companies paid $5 million to its shareholders in 1960 on their investment. of $3,100,000 according to a government report. The same report showed that $259 million was loaned to 520,000 borrowers by that one company. October 16, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7 >