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...Matson has a wonderful way of avoiding direct statements: "However, the most significant (and unintentional) tendency of Comte's pre-behavioral science, together with that of the Saint-Simonians generally, was what Albert Salomon has called the 'totalitarian potentiality' implicit in its simultaneous cerebreation of society and nullification of the individual...
Anyway, across a bargaining table, Bridges' politics do not seem to matter. "Harry will make a big speech at the table about Cuba," says Matson Vice President Wayne Horvitz. "We let him talk, and then we get back to business." Bridges explains it all in his own jargon: "There are some labels, Communism and socialism, liberalism and conservatism, that mean something. But Republican and Democrat-those labels don't mean anything. As against talking left and moving right, I think it is more honest to talk right and move right...
...Says Stanley Powell, president of the Matson shipping line: "I don't know how the guy who sat at this desk 30 years ago felt about Bridges, but I know it was a hell of a lot different from the way I feel. I admire his ability to keep his word and get his union to back...
Similarly, it used to take six days to transfer a load of passenger cars off Matson's Hawaiian Motorist; the ship can now dock, unload and be back at sea in seven hours. Where 14-man gangs worked twelve shifts to load cargo containers into a Matson ship, a ten-man gang can now perform the complete loading job in just two shifts...
...Matson still has its troubles. Despite hoopla promotion, its two Honolulu-bound passenger liners lost $2,200,000 last year. Now the Lurline is down with a nervous turbine. Matson would like to retire her, or to shift her or her sister, the Matsonia, away from Hawaii to the subsidized South Seas run. At a price of $1,500,000 in wage increases this year, Matson has bought labor peace at least through mid-1964. President Powell is wary of pushing the unions too hard with automation plans, and he does not believe in bragging too much about the future...