The Washington times., 1935-01-10

ton OF the ~
radical and M
sOcialiS tic
doctrine of Lewis Haney
"the right to work." The
President proposes "a national
chart for giving work." and the
budget is set up for spending
billions on unnecessary Federal
prOjects.)
3. The illogical notion that
you can deal with disease by
touring symptoms" and can at
tain recovery while making ere
forms" which hamper recovery.
Nothing Is suggested about push
ing the old New Deal program of
RECOMMENDATION and money tinker
ing. The continued existence of
millions of unemployed is admit
ted, and new New Deal is pro-
posed.
This new New Deal is based
upon the old socialistic doctrine or
slogan, "the right to work." Under
this slogan the Federal govern
ment proposes to become the
greatest single employer of labor
outside of Russia. To the growing
hundreds of thousands of Govern
ment bureaucratic white-couar
workers, it is going to put millions
of manual laborers on its payrolls.
This notion of "the right to
work" is utterly misleading and
vicious.
In the first place, there is no
such right. If work means any
thing it means productive employ
ment. But If there is no produc-
tive employment available, no one
can have such a right.
If an individual wants to go out
and exercise with q shovel, he
may do so. If there is work to be
done, he has a right to try for it.
But there never has been, nor can
be, a right on the part Of citi-
zen to demand that the Govern
ment waste his time and other
peoples money by giving him un-
productive exercise.
In the second place, think how
meaningless "the right to work" is.
What kind of work" is meant?
At what wage? Under what work"
ing conditions? At what places
and times?
Nobody on earth can undertake
to undertake to guarantee to every
body work of the kind and at the
wage he wants. In practice, the
right to work becomes the DUTY
to work, and to obey the orders
Of some government taskmaster.
The practical difficulties are
illustrated by the Presidents rules.
He says the work will be useful"
This means nothing but what he
thinks may be useful" That it
will produce no income is shown
by the fact that it is supposed not
to compete with the productive
work of those who are already
employed.
Why doesn't s m n e-say
Huey LOng-prOpOSe that we
organize the unemployed into
football teams? Then they could
play match games and charge
admittance. This would be use
full and would bring in much
money.
The President says the proposed
security wage" will be more than
Q dole, and less than enough to
encourage the relief worker to re-
fuse private employment. Oh.
yeah! We know it will be more
than a dole, but how long do we
think that voting workers" will
take less for their efforts for the
Government than other workers
get! (Think this over.)
He says the works will be
located where the unemployed are.
Can the Government start a dam
or forest just anywhere?
I predict that if the New Deal
ers go ahead with this right to
work." the result will be a Social
1st or Fascist state, with work
armies marching around doing
"useful" but valueless things.
Either by their votes they would
get the wages and working condi-
tions they desired, or they would
find themselves lin the army"
Unparalleled waste or dictatorial
coercion are the alternatives.
AS to recovery" VS.. reform"
I may be called narrow" or a
''Tory," but I honestly think that
most Of these waSteful and un-
economic schemes which are Ia
belled reforms" have been and
are today preventing recovery,
and that they are certainly keep
ing private business from afford
ing productive employment. Un-
employment is just a symptom of
depression, and can be remedied
only by recovery.
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