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Story Of Donald Gordon Is Of Horatio Alger Type

By MICHAEL GILLAN OTTAWA (CP) — Donald Gordon’s .is a Horatio: Alger etory, the self-made man who rose from a $l-a-day factory job

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to the $75,000-a-year post of president of the public - owned CNR:, ; :

Short on-formal education but long on intelligence and with: a jnative talent for. administrating, ‘the gruff, burly Scotsman ranks as one of the giants among Ca- nadian businessmen.

His drive and briskness gained him some enemies along the way, with some critics call- ing him a dictator. Others wanted him fired and some stu- dents once burned: him in ef-

igy. eo

But others said that although |

lhe was tough he was also fair.

‘And one notable opponent, Que- separatist MP Gilles Greg-

loire who battled him over

with, by acquisition or inherit- ance, but what he does with what he -has.”"

In 1935 he was tapped by Gra- ham Towers to be secretary to the newly-formed Bank of Can- ada and three years later he be- came deputy governor of the central bank which handles Canada's monetary system. SET UP EXCHANGE BOARD

During the Second World War he helped organize the foreign exchange board which was set /up to ensure that Canada’s for-

leign exchange earnings were

preserved as much as possible for the war effort.’

One story about this job which displays his quick wit concerns a meeting with senior officials

French - language representa- |

tion in the CNR, eventually | turned into one of his greatest admirers. ' j

If the criticism and contro- | versy bothered him, he hid his! feelings and pointed to his working motto:

worthwhile by pussy-footing.”’ FIRST SOLD PAPERS .

Mr. Gordon arrived in Can- ada from his birthplace of Old Meldrum,” Scotland, in” 1914" at

ar magazines.

From a $l-a-day job in a box factory he joined the Bank of Nova Scotia where his meteoric rise began.

By night he was working on

- by - letter courses and

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night school, later taking a spe- cial correspondence course in from: Queen's Univers- ity and earning a feHowshi> in the: Canadian Bankers’ Associa- tion, equivalent to an econom- ics deerec 3 By day, Mr. Gordon rose to the executive levels of the bank at-a breathless pace. At 24 he

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was one of the youngest bank inspectors in the country. He was assistant chief accountant at 26 and assistant manager of the main Toronto office at 29. “It seems to me that all suc- cessful- men are self - made men,” he once said. “‘It isn’t a matter of what a person starts

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the age of 13 with his family | and at> first -peddled-newspapers’|poard whigh

of - the. chartered banks who were kept locked in an office until the cabinet had passed: an order - in - council implement- ing new regulations.

One weary and annoyed banker asked’ what would hap- pen if the cabinet never got

“Nobody--ever did anything jaround to passing the order.

“Ah,” Mr. Gordon said with ja broad smile, ‘‘then I shall ,have to shoot you all.”

i Next he was handed one of

wartime prices and trade

‘ toughest jobs, chairman of

prices; -ra- hao goods and controlled sup- plies.

| It was during this period he picked up the dictator label jwhile successfully drawing top

minister the board.

“He never would have suc- ceeded had he sought to live up to the reputation which his de- tractors gave—the reputation of a dictator,” said then justice miniser J. L. Isley when the prices board. was disbanded in 1947, “‘True;-he was , firm and décisive. He did mind a fight.” -

HELD OTHER POSITIONS

He held other positions simul- taneously during the war, and in 1947 returned to the Bank of Canada where he remained un- til taking the top CNR job Jan. 1, 1950, at the age of 49.

The. public saw and heard a great deal of Donald Gordon during the following 17 years, particularly reports of his an- nual encounters with the Com-. mons railway committee. Flanked by countless vice- presidents and officials balane ing overflowing brief cases on their knees, Mr. Gordon and a were an awe-inspiring sight.

Some-MPs, like former New Democrat MP Douglas Fisher who had studied the railways

» |thoroughly, took him on about CNR policy and methods. His|- s

most famous encounter was with Mr. Gregoire over use of French-speaking employees in the CNR.

Mr. Gregoire in 1962 charged that Mr.. Gordon was “passing over French - speaking Canadi- ans in making: senior appoint- ments. ~o/

Mr.. Gordon replied that . this might have been the policy 20 or 30 years before when the present top executives were starting out, but i was longer the case. _. : “We havé done more for the cause of the French language in the CNR than any other or- ganization,” he added. The CNR had reeruited many young French-speaking men from the universities and in 10 years some. would be in the top jobs. STOOD FIRM

He stood firm on this issue with the statement that ‘‘as long as I am president of the CNR, there is not going to be a promotion or an appointment made just because a man is a French-Canadian. He has to be as able as the other fellow who has a claim on the job.”

CNR headquarters issued sta- tistics to back his contention that there was ne discrimina- tion but the issue snowballed in

Five MPs from Quebec spon- sored a resolution demanding the appointment of French-

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Cemmons by Creditiste Leii@r Real Caouette to reduce Mr. Gordon's salary to $1.

Resolutions urging his — dis- missal came from one city council and from a uni student association. Arnold Pet- ers, New Democrat MP for ‘Timiskaming, called the pres- ident “a silly ass” and de- manded he be fired.

Mr. Gordon was burned in ef- figy in Montreal, Quebee City, Sherbrooke and Ottawa was there was a bomb threat scare in ‘the CNR’s Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal.

CONTROVERSY DIED DOWN The controversy died slowly and in the end Gilles Gregoire, o deputy leader of the Cred- ported tion for Mr. Gordon when he appeared before the railways

Under Mr. Gordon the CNR, formed from a network of debt- ridden or bankrupt railways and ‘communications sy stem, was revamped into an aggres- sive company using modern

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senger and freight business... Although he didn’t see the CNR’s ‘inherited debt wiped out

‘by government legislation as he

wanted, the railway now shows an -operating surplus.

The 1965 annual report says that operating profits last year were $28,500,000, but the com- pany still had a $33,400,000 def- icit because of annual interest eharges on the inherited debt of $61,900,000.

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