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Show ABOVE THE By LTTXJB HULL rIS DIFFICULT to understand why several million grown-up men who have lived in a free country coun-try can allow a few politically-minded politically-minded labor leaders to place their personal liberty in jeopardy. Let us say that 90 percent of the steel workers are members of the union and 10 percent are not. If the 10 percent are compelled against their wills to become members of Murray's oligarchy, it will to all intents and purpose strengthen that man's control over all the members mem-bers by about 100 percent. In other words, he will be their supreme master. Don't these men like freedom? Don't they want to be able to quit a union if they wish and go into another an-other union, or to work without joining join-ing any union? Why do they want a master? Murray didn't "master" anyone in Scotland where he came from. The Scots are too smart to let themselves in for that sort of servitude. Maybe he figured we were dumb. Maybe he" was right. President- Truman's outspoken opposition to the Taft-Hartley law reportedly cost him a great num-I num-I ber of labor voles "in 1913. Those members of unions who had read the law were quid: to see that it returned re-turned to them much of the freedom free-dom of which the Wagner act had deprived them. But the Fair Deal didn't seem to "catch the drift," and now doesn't seem to realize that there are millions of working men who are capable of understanding under-standing that enforcement of the union shop provision means tighter bands upon their wrists without any compensation whatsoever. " It doesn't help them win a strike; it doesn't strengthen their hands in an arbitration meeting; it doesn't give them any greater control of the Fair Deal than their masters already seem to enjoy. , But it does do away with just that ' much potential oposition to the arbitrary ar-bitrary and oft misused power over their lives which the arrogant I labor leaders now exercise. The Taft-Hartley law was adopted when these leaders became alarmingly alarm-ingly presumptuous. But they don't seem to have grasped the import ol the hint. |