Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Mo te "News Chronicle", whai muri i te patu tauranga o te tau 1954, i haere ia ki nga waahi mahi katoa i roto i te toru wiki. I kitea e ia "he ngoikoretanga whakamiharo, he whakahaere ngoikore e tata ana ki nga mahi a te uniana, he mahi kino, me te kaha o nga kaimahi". Ko Arthur Deakin, te kaiārahi o te TGWU, i pānui i ngā tuhinga a te kairipoata i mua i te whakaputanga i runga i te manawanui a Goodman, ā, i whakaaro ia he "whakakahoretanga whakahē" ngā tuhinga. I tautoko a Goodman i te whakatau a te kaiwhakaputa a Michael Curtis ki te whakahe i te
Ko te whakauru o Suez, he tuunga i wehewehe ai nga kaimahi o te pepa. I muri ake nei, tae noa ki tana hoa tata a Michael Foot, kaore ia i whakapono ki te unilateralism i te wa i puta mai ai te CND. I tuhia e Goodman te hanganga o te hapori o te taone iti o Sellafield i te 1959, huri noa i te teihana hiko karihi tuatahi o te UK.