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Show pointed arbitrators, and thumb its nose at the government with impunity. Unless the people awaken and deal with this monopoly, the same as they have with industrial monopolies, mon-opolies, and make them all bend their knees to law and courts, we will in a short time find ourselves under as ruthless ruth-less a dictatorship as did the German people. The seriousness of the present crisis is indicated by a brief news item which states that "delegates representing 80,000 CIO fed eral, state and municipal employes -met in Atlantic C ity and repealed their former declaration that 'it shall not' be the policy of this organization to engage in strikes as a means of achieving its objectives'." In the publicly-expressed opinion of the late President Roosevelt, as well as President Truman, if workers can strike against government, there is no government. THE SEEDS OF REVOLUTION No one knows when the demoralization caused by the present situation in the United States as the result of onesided one-sided labor laws, will end. The money losses caused the workmen are incalculable, but they are the least of the penalty pen-alty we are paying for the inability of American citizens to settle their grievances without industrial warfare. We are losing the respect of the world at a time when we should be an example of progress as the result of intelligent intel-ligent action on our own domestic problems. The goal of the American labor movement today seems to be unbridled power. It is already a monopoly that can strangle a nation at will and defy the awards of duly ap- |