The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-28
Thoughts on the Free Enterprise"
system


Many of the public prints these days are full of matea
about ee enterprise we are to and extene
it, The of talk eternay aimed at the ears
radio audience Too people accepting that this
much advertised free enterprise something all
and that anyone who doubts it is public enemy
afraid that many do not have very good idea
what this free enterprise talk and publicity all
is generally accepted tonic in civic matters
that somehow permits to do what he with
corporations trying to convince the public that their
operations and the this Wanted ree
prise"
AS matter of fact in most instances Americas we'll
other indusraly developed nations-there
such thing free enterprise system Competition went
the of all flesh when the trusts formed attempts
Of various chief executives including the Roosevets
Wilson, to break domestic monopoes have proved dismal
failures output and prices bv onopolistic
corporations tight control of the much abused
OPA. farreachng because it operates
through application of the economy of scarcity png up sur
puses of commodities which permits distribution of only at
fixed profits to ITSELF and closing production
whenever finds the public slow buying up the SURPRISES
manufactured And the system today by
International monopoies
There to be way under the contemporary
nomic system of avoiding this condition because the
ment and the system too generally in the hands of the
benefcaries of the system That why all the controlled
corporate of the nation continually abusing Roosevelt
he heads administration which has dared challenge the
rights of corporate monopoly to continue it's exploitation
the people and natural of the nation.
The only competition that exists under such system
disappeared today because the buying practical
y all raw and manufactured commoditiesand either directly
or indirectly furnishing almost everybody with lob That
wartime which in 1913 pushed national
up to the fantastic height of 143 billion dollars.
But when the is successfully terminated when the
when the ree enterprise system
have surplus of goods in their plants warehouses then
again will into play the only competition the ree
enterprise system Because the system does not permit the
private of industry to continue operation of their
unless the public buy back the products follows they
must close the plants until surplus commodities again
haused That slows workers their jobs
Then have competition the workers for the dmn
shing number of jobs AT the same time find
prosperous farmerfaced with gutted which
hey have conrocompetng with another sell their
wheat spuds cotton, meat price pro-
iucton Only those with forget days
If 25 cent wheat a la Hoover.
industrial agricultural production speeded up
~ the genius of Americans produce far
than the people of this country The
allied ee enterprise system breaks the product
be bought back The private profit system, which has
lovingly dubbed the ree enterprise SYSTEM only
hen the few owning the machinery of production and
distribution make profit from the of workers o
and small business folks In the meantime the latter
classes dded by the information sources gener
lily owned by the monopolies controlled by Them
linking their interests are the those OF the corporate
onopoes because forsooth the farmer has few and
ckens and the worker for the moment has
given job and the small businessman because he has
rendered the distinction of unloading the monopoes wv
mmodtes at fixed profit which keeps him busy trying la
that has little pc
entail hoax that is being perpetrated at his
With of production skfuly increased until We
day we can produce more than we need while more than
million of best workers in the armed forces and
millions engaged in work. how does anybody he
the to think the private profree enterprise
and its qualifications? If the Wanted system broke down
failed to function during the free enterprise admins
atoms of Coolidge and Hoover proved itself unable to hire
unemployed how be expected solve the problem
len the is over? col
This the less ugubrous that e
thing be about it. that go through another
PlC cue. may NC uue PAIN leduS
IL is only because we Americans are
face reality The planned of monopoStc produc
and fort The VIII
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who periodically suffer when the system goes hay
ought to be plain that all of owned the system
operated for service to mankind by
few, that could all fare UNNECESSARILY BETTER avoid the II
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be necessary for the 100000 service people, millions
ling Defense the countless little business professional
another this truth
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