Milford chronicle., 1945-10-05


states: nor beg those officials to obtain
other peoples money to spend here A free
people must be Self-rejiant and >elf-Sup-
porting.
1T IS PREDICTED that Americas most
violent strike era lies ahead. Union leaders
have given union locals the word that they
are free to strike whenever ready. The skill
ed craft unions are already preparing to re-
fuse new members. They think that they
can maintain prosperity for few by keep
ing supply below demand in closed shops.
Some union leaders can see that this pol
icy Of denying the right to work to man
will play into the hands Of advocates OF legls-
lation which would permit men to enter any
occupation for which they are qualified, re-
gardeSS Of union restrictions
Both unions and Congress seem to have
forgotten that there is d Constitution OF the
United States under which men were guar
anteed the right to life, liberty and the pul-
suit of happineSS-Which means the right to
work If we have any Constitution left, on
any sembl;,nce Of freedom for the Individual
and courts to protect him, why should any
man be shut out Of work by any union or
amy industry, until he pays some organlZa-
tion for the privilege of being allowed To
earn his daily bread and butter:
Until this question is answered and
man is free to work and free to Join d union
or not Join it. as he sees fit cannot hold
the United States up to the rest Of the world
as 4 shining example OF free country.
What have our soldiers been fighting for if
when they return to their homes they can
not work without paying for the privilege?
IT IS PROPER. and understandable, for
all of us who work for :; living to want more
for what we do.
There is ample evidence for the belief that
the vast majority of Americas manufacture
erS. now heroically trying to supply veterans
and war workers with Jobs and home and
farm with needed goods, are in favor Of more
wages for their workers when production JUS
titles such increases. They know that pul-
chasing power which arises out of the pro-
cess Of production for profit is the true source
OF our prosperity.
The present disagreement. which has all
but stopped reconVersion through widespread
strikes and strike threats, is on whether
workers are to be paid the same aggregate
weekly amount for 10 hours work rs they
have been getting for Is or - hOurS-n
other words, whether they should be paid
30 per cent more wages for 20 per cent less
aggregate output
If put into effect that would mean higher
prices, and the consumer would have to bear
them-for how else could q producer get the
money to pay his workers for producing
less?
Then the consumer himself might we'll 90
on strike. His refusal to buy goods at IN
tiated prices would mean failing markets,
man and his labor advisors bring this dis
pute down to earth before it is too late to
save recOnverSion and the prosperity and
full employment which we should be enjoy
ing.
ANYONE WHO DARES to suggest that
our nation faces definite threat of national
socialism, is branded by the sO-called 'liber
ais as a reactOnary and an enemy of the
people. Anyone who supports old-faShionet
American ideals of government which frOWn
ed upon bureaucracy which makes the in
divdual subServient to government, receive
lldlcule OF abuse.
Every proposal to put government int,
business or to give the individual Il pubi
handOut. takes more away from him in take
to finance such socialistic schemes than h
will ever receive in return. And worst of al
II takes away liberty and opportunity as tn
citizen becomes dependent on gOvernmen
largeSS.
We have been very SNUG in criticizn
Russia for its political philosophy Of con
munlSm; we have talked about its fVe-yea
plans under which the cOmmuniStic govern
ment established government-oWned indus
tries including great hydroeectlic plants
But Russla's fiVe-ye&r plans for power dc
t velopment were not one whit more cOmmur
i iStlc than has been our own Federal poWe
Y development program for the last decad
a Federal officials and power agencies hay
l. blocked out the United States for a netWOl
of government-oWned taX-eXempt poWt
T. systems which would ultimately lead to ;
l. complete communication of electric power
e the United States as in Russia. Instead
n communism, however, the proponents of tn
y national socialism in our country call the
Il projects "authorites" which sounds lit
It softer than communism, but the object a
d complished is the same.
n More billions are now proposed for II
Q development Of this "authorty" system |
IT the Federal Government, from the Atlant
to the Pacific, than Russia ever spent on
10 cOmmunlZed power program. We are all S
to ont RuSSio in bo fol