Charles E. Wilson Quotes

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• Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.
• No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the…
• There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or…
• No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan…
• Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while…
• Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind.…
• Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.
• For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations,…
• In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved…
• Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.
• Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda…
• If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices,…
• Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the…
• That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.
• That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people…
• Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce…
• Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store…
• The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and…
• A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward…
• No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up…

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