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Show Page 10 The Utah Independent December 9, CLICHES OF SOCIALISM Foundation for Economic Education , Inc., lrvington-on-HudsoNew York n, We must break up economic power." For years, the term economic was used, almost power exclusively to suggest something bad about Big Business. But now, with the increasing concern over 1976 belong to labor unions. As previously hinted, one of the prior conditions for an optimum of production, trade, and voluntary cooperation among men is a common or mutual respect for human life and for the personal means of sustaining life: namely, Peace and private property. are within society progress time threatened every any person resorts to violence, coercion, theft, or fraud to fulfill his wants at the expense of, and without the consent of, others involved. Such power, used in an attempt to obtain something for nothing, is in sharp contrast to the ecnoomic power involved in peaceful purchase or the economic power of labor unions, it seems high time to examine the charge. Just what is the nature of economic power? And to what extent, if any, do labor unions have it? Or, is it some other kind of power that unionism trade. exerts? In terms of human relation- Obviously, if human labor is to achieve its maximum ships, the word power means the purchasing power, then it is essenability to influence others, whereas tial that savings, as well as skills, be economic has something to do with protected as private property in the the management of ones own hands of, and under the control of, business. Economic power, those individuals responsible for then unless it is a total con- their accumulation and tradiction of terms must refer to development those who have the voluntary market-exchang- e proven themselves in open free competition most fit to be in charge arrangements in a society. It must mean purchasing of the economic goods or services power, or the ability to get what involved. Throughout history, from others want has looked to mankind offering by you that to trade something of yours government to provide such want. they protection for life and property. A workable exchange Government is organized coercive convarious economy presupposes power, hopefully designed to supinfinite the ditions, including press any and all attempts at variability in human beings with violence, force, or fraud that might their differing wants and differing threaten the life or property of any capacities to fulfill such wants. peaceful person. The power of Men with specialized skills, government is political rather than their reasonable tolerant of economic, a power of taxation and differences, and respectful of the seizure rather than purchasing lives and properties of one another, power through voluntary have reason to cooperate, compete, exchange. This is why the ideal of a and trade, thus serving others in free society requires that order to serve themselves. This is government be strictly limited in the kind of noncoercive, creative scope to the defense of life and power that has provided most of property, otherwise leaving all the tools, capital, technological peaceful persons to their own development, goods, services, and devices, producing, trading, and leisure that are available in in- what not. creasing quantities to increasing Now, consider for a moment numbers of persons over the world. some forms of human acThis, briefly, is economic power. tion some expenditures of In what respects, then, and to human labor that might be claswhat extent, do labor unions sified as coercive rather than wield economic economic. For instance, robbery, possess and power? Unions, as organizations or seizure of another persons of laborers, represent a great deal property without his consent, of economic power in the form of would so qualify. The enslaving e, always-valuabl- e, and forcing of other human beings creative human effort. Any person to work against their will could not with the skill and strength and will properly be called an exercise of to produce something of value to economic power. It isnt economic himself or to any potential cus- power if force is used to curb active tomer possesses economic power. or potential competition as when If others will buy his goods or one producer or group threatens or services, he has purchasing power. employs violence to bar the efforts man head works with who or Every of others to produce; or when one hands and has a valuable service to or more sellers deny other sellers offer is a potential customer or access to an uncommitted market trader or buyer for the services of demand; or when certain laborers other laborers. The variability of combine to deny other laborers natural talents, magnified in many access to open job opportunities. instances specialized Such individual actions or comthrough training, explains why laborers can binations in restraint of production and do trade services to mutual ad- and trader are coercive in vantage. All savers and property nature monopolistic attempts to owners also are potential buyers of suppress, prohibit, repulse, conlabor, particularly when their trol. and interfere with the savings are in the form of business economic power of peaceful properties with facilities and tools cooperation. and managerial talent of the It is precisely such coercive such The type. greater practices that the government is capital accumulation within a supposed in theory to suppress, so society, the greater is the demand that all individuals may concenfor human labor to put it to its trate on their respective creative most productive use, and the specialties. And whenever the ofgreater is the purchasing power of ficially recognized government every available laborer. Gearly, cooperates with, condones, or human labor possesses tremendous merely fails to inhibit private or economic power, with infinite op- unofficial resort to violence and so-call- ed ever-scarc- job-providi- ng portunity for multiplication through judicious accumulation But such and use of savings. purchasing power inheres in individuals, whether or not they The Paper That Dares To Take property. Nor is this abuse of coercive power always or necessarily the product of bad intentions; more often than not the aims may seem quite laudable to aid the poor, the weak, the young, the old, the underdeveloped, the sick, the starving. But however worthy the aims, troubles arise the moment coercive power instead of economic power is employed to Coercive achieve such goals. power, while the safest and most effective kind of power when politically organized and managed for protective purposes, is wholly unsuited for any creative purpose. That's why it is so very important that government be strictly limited in scope and function to the sup- of lesser or private at attempts violence and coercion. Leave all else to the unbounded pression creative economic power of dividuals in- and competing cooperating voluntarily in their mutual interest and to their mutual benefit. Every extension of coercive power, beyond the bare minimum required to maintain peace and order, is at the expense of economic power and diminishes its potential achievements for the improvement of man and society. Let us summarize here with a listing of some of the major distinctions between the two kinds of power Coercive Economic Purchase Exchange Seize Tax Conform Monopolize Suppress Diversify Compete Advertise Promote Prohibit Control Serve Interfere Restrain Attract Repulse Create Destroy Limit Develop Divide Multiply Tolerate Assault Reward Penalize to our return lets Now, original question and consider in what respects and to what extent labor unions in the United States today possess and wield economic power as distinguished from coercive power. We have already Cooperate Assist recognized the tremendous economic power possessed-b- y laborers in the form of creative human effort. But what happens to this economic power in the process of organizing a labor union? If membership in the union is voluntary, then exchange presumably occurs, the laborer offering his dues in return for something useful from the union such as improved communication with management, better knowledge of job opportunities, of market conditions, of competitive wage rates, and the like. Conceivably, some laborers may well gain considerably from such an expenditure or trade, greatly improving their capacities to serve themselves and others, without coercion against or injury to Such a anyone concerned. beneficial representative function would clearly come under the category of economic power in a labor union. But what can be said of other union powers: the flaunting of minority and individual rights; the tax-lik- e collection of dues for uses coercion, these forces, in effect, objectionable to some members; take control and become the the to enforced conformity make-wor- k it thus and perverting government, featherbedding from an agency of defense to one of practices, seniority boycotts, 1 Continued on page 1 actual assault against life and THE A Stand E.P. THORNTON COLUMN Rose and Alger Hiss. Again in the news is Tokyo Rose, a Japanese woman who broadcast during World War II, trying to undermine the morale of U.S. and Allied servicemen. The controlled media has begun a second round of yapping effort to get this convicted traitor back into America's bloodstream with restored citizenship. Remember, if she is declared right, then is declared wrong. American That is the left wing name of the game. The lie is being spread that her broadcasts were for the entertainment and not the subversion of our armed services. But the worst propaganda is She should be pardoned because Richard Nixon was. That twisted logic is also being used to assist deserters and draft dodgers. Most of them are by now and if given amnesty would swarm back into America to join with subversives (like P.B.C.) where they would find warm welcome anti-Americ- an, and leadership. Compared with this Tokyo Rose clamor, on November 4th some veiy important news got only brief headlines and a few inches of space in the managed media: INDIA REGIME'S BILL WOULD DELAY ELECTIONS". The article deals with the loss of liberty of over 500 million people. Russias puppet Indira Gandhi simply says that she needs to continue her emergency powers established in June 1975 for as long as she wishes. The media feeds us reams about Tokyo Rose, while not one vigorous voice in our press, or left-wiState Department, is raised to protest the forging of the chains of slavery on half a billion people of India!! Plotters will if possible kick out the White Christians of Africa, and turn their country over to black communist stooges, but will say nothing as India, second most populous country on earth, falls to communism. ng On the same day was this headline: RUSSIA SIGNS TWO TREATIES WITH ANGOLA". (1) A friendship treaty pledging military cooperation. (2) Party to party" agreement, which means that the ruling communist parties have joined hands, and evil hearts, for further conquest of Africa. Our State Department, run by arrogant Herr Kissinger, says It is too early to determine the extent of Soviet-AngolWhat military aims. could they be aimed at except Rhodesia? It will never be the right time for Kissingers kind to expose facts. We didnt know" Castro was a communist until he told us so himself after taking over Cuba. We didnt know" Castro was shipping men to Angola until they were in combat there, for BIG BOSS BREZHNEV. I think it is a lie to say we did not know these things. It seems clear as we look back that we kept silent as a means of aiding communist takeovers. And in a smallish way, we are doing the same thing by trying to whitewash and reinstate as good Americans, traitors like Tokyo an Cowards, die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. -- Shakespeare to exterminate if necessary the White Christians in Africa, so are we turning over America to the negro. inexperienced, bloc-votiCreator the knows why Nobody in Africa. We the negro segregated slave traders planted do know that him among whites. But of this should Christians be ashamed? In the Jewish Old Testament it is related (Genesis 37:28) that Joseph's brothers sold him as a slave to a passing caravan. For thousands of years slavery was a way of life. Americans, BE NOT ASHAMED OF SLAVERY!! BE PROUD THAT YOU GOT RID Just as Kissinger is willing ng OF IT!!! It is a fact that millions of backward Africans, with no written language, living in caves and huts, constantly chopping each other up in tribal wars, ONCE IN WOULD NOT RETURN TO AFRICA, even if given free transportation and enough to live on for one year. AMERICA Sinister forces are guiding the negro bloc vote. Negro columnist Chuck Stone of the Phila. Daily News said it under this BLACK VOTE DID heading IT UP BROWN FOR CARTER". Jimmy won of the 92 BLOC BLACK Philadelphia VOTE. The white man is in danger. In Africa, populous negro nations, with communist help, are closing in on White Christian pioneer civilizations. It looks bleak for those remote Christian outposts of freedom and culture, when blacks in Philadelphia and Mississippi can boast of electing a United States President. A crafty group knows the naive negro can be manipulated as a mass mind, with welfare, civil rights gimmicks, maudlin pity for himself, and hatered of whites. The negro was given power in the South by carpetbaggers during its post-Civ- il War reconstruction ordeal. He couldnt rule. He wouldnt do better now-i- he had control here or in Africa. But shadowy forces are shoving him to the front. If the negro thinks he will ever be ALLOWED TO CONTINUE in power, if communism ever takes full control, God help him and his misguided MASS MIND. Communist dictator Joseph Stalin, AFTER HE GAINED ABSOLUTE POWER, had several hundred thousand of the finest persons in fcussia murdered. (See Brittanica 1957 edition). Hefeared their rivalry: How long would a Communist dictator stand for civil rights riots, and third generation welfare loafers, black or white? They would die by millions. But those who are egging them on, using their voting power, have dreams of being the Stalins of tomorrow-a- nd retaining power by Stalins methods. Only by mass murder can a dictatorship be perpetuated. If you disagree, give me one example from history. Send small donation for basic book on Communism. Write 6F Arcadian No. 1, Myrtle Beach, f SC. 29577 |