Show The Fuse Is Burning I During recent years while the pendulum of political strategy was swinging In favor of labor laws and increased regulation regulation regulation regula regula- tion of business vote-seeking vote politicians politicians politicians poli poli- have time and again stepped stepped stepped step step- ped across the line in their capacity capacity capacity cap cap- of lawmakers to show open- open armed favoritism to certain groups principally labor Out of or the welter came such laws as the Wagner Act the National National National Na Na- Labor Relations Act the Guffey Coal Act and others These laws were drawn to appeal to the votes of organized labor Justice and the national welfare were Ig Ig- nored Labor racketeering a and n d strikes increased Evil as these are especially in wartime somethIng something something some some- thing worse has come of the class- class conscious legislative thinking that has ruled Washington a a frightening frighten frighten- ing admiration for personal government government government govern govern- ment has sprung up within the groups which the politicians have patronized I If this admiration prevails prevails prevails pre pre- vails indefinitely our republic will perish for it was founded on a government of oC laws not of men men men- and its laws must be just if it is isto isto isto to survive Government seizure of or orthe the nations nation's coal mines is only superficially superficially superficially su su- su- su attributable to the war Under constant politically inspired labor strife it would have come eventually anyway At last an important important important im im- im- im i segment of or the private enterprise en en- system has been engulfed As long as the coal mines remain under the total control of government government government govern govern- i ment their former owners together with the mineworkers are operating ing mg under a system of state social- social Ism I If we want the system to expand expand expand ex ex- ex- ex and become a permanent substitute substitute substitute sub sub- for Cor capitalism we have only to sit back and continue along the I path we have been following At its end there is neither private enterprise enterprise enterprise enter enter- prise nor labor unions Congress should move immediately immediately immediately immedi immedi- to amend or remove every law which deliberately favors labor la labor labor la- la bor or any other single group |