Milford chronicle., 1946-06-07

THE SUREST WAY to destroy represen-
tative government in this country is to tie It's
future to our economic fortunes. Even now
the American form of government is being
distorted in an effort to control imitation"
to protect the people from possible economic
hardships resulting from the war, and eX
cesSive government borrowing. The truth is
that there is no sure way to avoid postwar
upheaval Material values will continue to
undergo change. A people of strong will can
live through the hardship of this change, and
if necessary start from scratch economically
speaking. However, continue the present
trend of trying to soften the blow of what we
are pleased to call initiation, by sacrificing in
stitutions of government that alone stand be-
tween the people and the ruthless political
oppression of past ages, and there will never
be an opportunity to build anew. The sacred
ness of the individual inherent in the Ameri-
can political structure is the foundation of
our civilization. Nothing should be permitted
to weaken this structure. That is why the
present controversy over the extension of
OPA goes so much deeper than the question
Of prices. OPA is a form of government. 1t
rules by decree 1t can spread through every
strata of American life 1t is beyond the
courts of our land. The questiOn-and the
only queStiOn-iS, Do the American people
want this kind Of government?
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TAKE A YOUNG MAN OR GIRL who is
around tWenty-One, and Squint at them from
the psychophysics angle What you deduct
is not so strange when you take into account
that they were only eight years of age when
our present "know all and do all' type of
Government took the saddle. About all that
your tWenty-One year old Off-shOOt knows
about Government is that it will tell him
what he must get along without. Right now
it is bacOn-and butter-and meat-and flour
and nylOnS. Recently we were told by the
Governmental flag WaverS and scare mOng-
lers that in ninety days there would be new
crops in India and Africa and in many other
parts of the world that would greatly aid in
feeding the starving and under nouriShed ;
but now we are told that the War Department
is planning to feed Germany and Japan until
July in 1947 at a sixty million dollar per
month clip. We win wars and rush into feed
ing the enemy SO that he will be fit and fat
and can start another War-SOOn, too soon.
And while OPA takes the ceiling off of roller
skates, it clamps tighter on chicken feed. In
six months eggs will be as extinct as clothing
and lumber. And while we psychoanayze the
tWenty-One year OldS and maybe shake our
heads, we should be having somebody feel the
bumps on our own grOWn-up dOmeS. Pea soup
is no thicker than tOdays confusion
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THE SINGLING OUT of a couple of labor
leaders for the brunt of White House denun-
citation, and the calling upon the emergency
machinery OF the government, will not alone
solve the nations industrial crisis
The thing which eventually must be done
requires far Sterner action, and determina-
tion to go through with it-without letting
the eye become distracted by the lengthen-
ing shadow of the coming Congressional
elections or the Presidential campaign of
1913.
The Emergency" Situation should not
have been an unexpected development 1t has
been growing for years-due to the gradual
recognition by the Roosevelt and Truman ad-
mlnlStfatlOnS of organized labor as a group
unto itself. 1t has been exempted from the
laws applying to other citizens, and protected
by special laws giving it the power to do
things which other groups cannot.
The Genesis of the trouble today stems
from the one-sided provisions of the National
Labor Relations Act. No positive remedy for
the ills of the present will be found until the
position of management is equalzed with
that OF labor at the collective bargaining
table.
THE NATION HAS LEARNED the hard
way that 1T has vital stake in it's basic in
dustrles. The coal strikes have demonstrated
this with disastrous finality. The political
and Legislative trend in this country, weight
ed heavily In favor of mOnopolistc labor prac-
tlces, can have but one end-chaos and even
tual destruction of private management and
representative government. Repeatedly, even
In time OF war, the miners have struck. Each
time settlement was forced in favor of the
miners. Strikes are encouraged as long as the
law permits one party to do as it pleases while
restricting the actions Of the other
The coal miners latest demands amount
TO union taxation of industry and union con
troll of management
The people of this country must realize
soon that industry and labor must be treated