Things can go on, but it is so different. Well, there has to be something now countering the failure of the profit system, because America has to present a good visage to the rest of the world. That s a fairly new thing in the history of industrial prudence. The excessive supervision exercised by some of the patriarchs of industry over the private lives of their employees is a case in point. In the 30s there were stories about Weirton, where the company even provided the movies for its workers.
Capitalism has quite a few adjectives by now.
But no matter what the adjective, it s better to look into it. More aggressive resistance to unions may take the form of promoting or encouraging the operation of a Company Union. Those have gone down. That s the one good thing about George Meany. I don t like him too much, but you ve got to have somebody president of a national union, and he s not a company union man.