Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-04
Newest Ism
Will Doom
Free Nation
Dictator Methods Ahead
for U. S. 1PeeIer Warns
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

"
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
ONLY the few, or many, Nazi-
" Fascists among us will like
this, but it seems to me that in
an awkward, uncertain way we
have been edging over toward
some new isms of our own. an
ism, nameless and unformulated.
which when fully developed will
give us much in common with
our enemies.
Collectivism is not sufficient
name for ii, and Nazisn and
Communism are inappropriate.
But our system and the free.
doms which have thrived under
that system. and no other, have
been based on free enterprise,
and we certainly have renounced
that in a belief that only thus
could we protect the workers
from the soulless corporation.
So in many ways we have
hampered enterprises with regu-
lation. taxes, strict and onerous
accountability and official and
popular hostility and, at the
same time, have officially en-
couraged the development OF
vast blocs of power under few
privileged individuals known az
labor leaders.
THEY control, among them.
l. eight or nine million pairs
of hands but have no response
bility to the government or the
nation and little responsibility
to the workers.
They are not even required to
account for the moneys which
they collect, much Of it under
duress, and they discourage their
subjects from appealing 10 the
public courts for their rights.
In many cases the subjects
are forbidden TO do so, under
terrible penalties assessed by
tribunals which are simply kan
CARGO courts.
They have the power TO block
ade the whole national effort 10
manufacture weapons of defense
and have used this power in con-
siderable part during the year
Of this emergency, but they are
absolutely free OF regulation
and immune TO punishment.
IF THE liberties OF Americans
Il flow out of the free system.
then the way TO preserve those
Liberties Is TO restore that sys-
TEN. but we know that will not
be done because business. I'M
regulated, runs wild.
Even business men believe In
regulation now, and some OF
them. who have TO employ large
numbers OF. so 10 speak, face
less. impersonal strangers, are
glad TO deal with unions which
can guarantee TO supply them
with hands TO do the work at
agreed rates of pay and under
agreed conditions.
They prefer not TO have 10
deal with individual workers at
all.
We have plainly seen however.
that the union chiefs. being UNI
der no legal regulation them
selves. cannot deliver their
people or keep them in line. so
10 equalize matters we shall
presently have TO adopt legisla-
ton to correct this defect.
That is sure to come, and when
II does happen both enterprise
and labor will be controlled by
the federal government.
This is the way il is done In
Italy, Germany and Russia.
And after this war, il we are
not cut up among the Axis pow
ers, with Florida reverting 10
Spain. Louisiana TO France, the
Southwest TO Mexico and 20
forth, we will have TO do some
thing OF the kind ourselves or
perish Of inefficiency and waste,
in connection with the other
side.
EFFICIENTLY regulated.
~ American industry and labor
could produce much more Of
everything for everybody. and
the smart politicians of the flu
ture, perhaps the new leader"
for whom Charles Lindbergh
yearns. would attract the people
10 the new plan by making IL
possible for them TO travel
cheaply and live well in beauti-
full vacation places in this won
derful country, under government
auspices.
But such regulation would pass
the ,compulsion on down to the
individual.
He would be protected from
exploitation and given presents,
but in return he would have to
submit to taxes and curtailments
of his freedom.
He would have to work, n
we'll, wherever his kind of skill
was needed and without stalling.
His union dues would 20 into
a government pot for labor's
benefit, and young man want
ing to be a taxidermist might
be compelled to learn plumbing