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Show THE AMERICAN WAY STALIN LAUGHS ny George Peck ; ; ' V ,-. , J By DR. ALFRED P. HAAKE (Editor's Note: Alfred P. Haake, Ph. D., Mayor of Park Ridge, Illinois, is a noted Economist, Business Consultant, Lecturer and Author.) Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin all sneered at the democracies for their inefficiency. Hitler and Mussolini Mus-solini lived to experience their own destruction at the hands of those democracies, tout Stalin has outlived out-lived them both, thus far long enough to get .the laugh on the world's one remaining constitutional constitu-tional democracy. Here is the United States, the world's richest and most powerful nation, priding itself on the freedom free-dom it accords all its citizens, on its highest standard of living in the world, and on its high regard for law and order, based on a government gov-ernment by law rather than by dictators. And then a little fellow fel-low by name of Petrillo tells thousands of musicians what they can and cannot do, pushes radio stations around, keeps the U. S. Marine Band off the air, and flouts a law of the land designed to stop him and gets away with it. Just a pocket edition of Stalin, himself, but he is more powerful than the President of the United States. Here is John Lewis, not able or qualified to run the country, but big enough to ruin it. Having forced Uncle Sam to take over the mines and enter into a contract with him, he cold-bloodedly breaks the contract, defies the govern-i govern-i ment and, in effect, tells the rest of us to go to Hades to get warm, while our entire economy gets ready to shut down until Jawn decides de-cides to let us up. The Mayor of the western city is man enough to tell even the unions un-ions that they must obey the laV, and the AF of L calls a general strike on him, with the CIO about to join forces. The AF of L has long protested that men must be free of involuntary servitude under un-der the constitution. Then blatantly blat-antly advertising its own contempt for that constitution and law, as applied to the majority of citizens, not part of organized labor, tells the Mayor he dare not use his police po-lice to enforce the law. Had it not been for Dan Tobin and his frankly expressed fear of arousing arous-ing the total public, Oakland could have starved in order to prove that labor leaders are' above the law. In Grand Rapids, Mich., a labor leader protests to the Mayor of that city against using the police to enforce the law, but apparently apparent-ly thinks it all right for his stoogea to use force to violate the law. In Chicago, several decent de-cent citizens were beaten by pickets pick-ets when they tried to go to work. A judge, running on the Democratic Demo-cratic ticket under Kelly, actually actual-ly found the decent citizens guilty of disorderly conduct for trying to get by the pickets who beat them up. The pickets who assaulted as-saulted them were turned loose without punishment. When the government fines Jawn Lewis, Bill Green of the AF of L calls it a return to "the lawof the jungle." But when labor lab-or pickets beat up citizens, including includ-ing old women and children, who try to go to work, why, my dear friends, that is only "peaceful picketing." Just to make things more interesting, inter-esting, Stalin's American stooges, the communists under Foster, throw their weight around and denounce the government, calling on all workers to resist that gov-enment gov-enment toy force, with indecent denunciations de-nunciations designed to inflame the workers. And Stalin laughs oh, how he must laugh! In Russia these things would not happen. Lewis, Petrillo and the rest would learn to respect the law in front of a firing squad in Russia. In America, they join Stalin in laughing at the public, sneering at the law and order under un-der which we live and without which the unions themselves must finally perish. In the end the ordinary working work-ing man, millions of him, will suffer suf-fer for the antics of power-mad labor leaders. We hate to see labor la-bor lose its gains, but they are surely asking for it! |