Posted on 10/29/2007 7:13:33 AM PDT by cougar_mccxxi
Canadian Autoworkers chief Buzz Hargrove lauds his no-strike agreement with car-part giant Magna International as path-breaking.
"Trade unions have been abolished as being an antagonism to employers and brought into one organization, and all parts having a share in government of industry," he wrote approvingly in his diary.
"This is virtually advocated in Industry and Humanity; the state appoints referees and in this way strikes are ended. I confess that what one sees here of the (National) Socialist state causes one to see many merits in the system."
(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...
To clarify, the quotation in the excerpt was from Canadian Liberal politician (later prime minister) William Lyon Mackenzie King during a visit to Hitler’s Germany in 1937.
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