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Most of all, Goldberg worries about what he calls "the hardening of attitudes" between management and labor. Says he: "Both sides should recognize the fact that they are not back in the '30s, when the union was struggling for recognition and management was struggling not to give it. But listen to any of the speeches at a labor union convention and you'll think you're back in the old days. You hear the same sort of thing from the other side at a meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers. They are talking in an atmosphere of distrust which their members simply do not recognize in their day-to-day relationships."
In appraising his own governmental record to date, Goldberg admits to qualms. He has been so occupied with settling day-by-day disputes that he has not yet had much time to attack labor's long-term problems. "Obviously," he says, "we have got to do better than we have done. We have to preserve the right to strike, but we don't want this right to be exercised. I admit this will be pretty hard to do—to create machinery which would not impose controls, but which would prevent stoppages."