Milford chronicle., 1947-05-09

leled since Al CapOne. Ihey cite many
examples, with every statement fully dOcu-
mented.
Labor leaders violently oppose proposals
which would correct such abuses. They don't
want justice-they want license. They want
to be able to make workers, industry and the
government dance to whatever tune they
than the American people, 1t is high time
for a showdown
THE COMMUNIST PARTY of Oregon
recently distributed curious leaflet in oppo-
siti0n to the demand of Secretary of Labor
SchWellenbach that the party be OutlaWed in
this country In that leafet it made this in
teresting statement: "All Americans, eSpe-
cially all trade uniOnistS and their organiza-
tions, should remember that in every country
in which the Communist party was outlawed,
the free trade unions and the liberties of all
sections OF the common people were also
suppressed
1t would be interesting to ask the Com
munlsts about conditions in Russia, the home
of Communism. Certainly the Communist
party has not been suppressed there-it is
the only legal party, and it runs the country
lock, stock and barrel. And, in Russia ."the
tiOns of the common people" are and have
long been non-existent. Russia is the police
state pure and simple. Labor, and everyone
else, does what it is told on pain of the heav.
lest punlShmentS The standard of living OF
Russian workers is almost at ASiatic levels
The ruling class, by comparison, knows every
luxury. Reliable authorities, such as Man
Eastman, have recently written that the So
Wet government, as a matter of policy, has
transported legions of workers from one par
of the country to the other, has subjected
them to forced labor and has maintained
them in conditions comparable only to Hit
lerS concentration camps.
Only in the much-revled capitalist ma
tiOnS have the rights of labor and the "cOm
mon people" been scrupulousy protected an,
maintained. Only under capitalism have tn
basic freedoms of speech, assembly and rel
giOn been kept fully alive. What this a
means is that the super-state is inevitabl
a destroyer Of liberty.
PRESIDENT TRUMAN recently CAV
one of the best descriptions ever made c
what the free competitive enterprise systel
means when he said "Under that systel
each man is free to 60 where he likes to fo
low the calling of his choice, and to be II
Warded In proportion to the productivity
the effort or the property he contributes"
That is an extremely accurate defnito
and it covers a great deal of ground in vel
few words. Under free enterprise, the ma
who invests capital as well as the man WI
invests his labor in an enterprise is enttlt
to whatever reward he is able to earn Und
free enterprise, every man is entitled to pu
| sue any lawful undertaking, free of dictate
ship and coercion by capital, labor or cover
ment. Under free enterprise, the freedom
the individual must be inviolate
Carrying the definition farther, it O
vlously means that government shall not u
necessarily interfere in the affairs of it's ci
zens. Its function is to establish and enfor
1 set of rules to fit the conduct of our econOl
ic life-and then to permit the players in t
game to do whatever they may please with
those rules. If man loses, he must acce
the loss. If he wins, he has a right to t
gain.
Finally, under this or any workable dc
: milton of free enterprise, government mi
!, keep out of business. Socialized enterpr
: and free enterprise cannot long exist side
/" side. The first will swallow the other, a
. then all basic freedoms will be lost TT
fact is implicit in President Truman's
:; statement.
SSIoSI
IS SENATOR VANDENBURG of Mic
p gan, who knows Pal Joe and Snooty Molot
IS is quoted as getting ready to urge the Uni
'e States to shift it's policies from Russia,
y ward Latin America, and patch up all diff
1T ences from the Mexican border to the tip
Argentina. Uncle Sam certainly has was
s. time trying to make the Communists beha
ii But all Americans believe in The Mon
is Doctrine-even though some of the Lat