| Show y Nations Nation's Largest Union Asks for Continued Control of Industry Leaders Claim That Such Industries Are Monopolistic and Strategically Necessary to the National Safety The leaders of the nations nation's largest largest larg larg- est labor union the United Automobile Automobile Automobile Automo Automo- I bile and Aircraft Workers CIO have asked the government to take toke takeover takeover over and run basic private Industries industries industries indus Indus- tries after the war on the grounds s that such Industries are monopolistic monopolistic monopolistic listic and strategically necessary to the national safety It Is a strange thing for leaders in any branch of public or private life to advocate further government government government govern govern- ment domination over the individual individual individual dual in a nation that is spending three or four billion dollars to crush government control over Individuals In Individuals indivIduals in- in in other nations They either do not know what they are asking or they are deliberately advocating advocating ad ad- state socialism socialism precisely precisely the same kind o of liberty destroy ing socialism Americans despise It is also strange to see those leaders demanding socialization of ot Industry on the plea of strategic necessity This war Is being won won because private industry the plane and md tank factories the shipyards the coal and metal mines the oil electric power and other natural re resource resource resource re- re source industries turned to the i task o of building a war machine from scratch with a or do-or-die de de I termination Success h has a s been achieved to an undreamed of degree de de- de- de gree success gree-success success that has been marred marred marred mar mar- red by but one serious incident over which management had no control The coal strike After Industry in industry industry In- In has proved its ability to meet a war emergency efficiently and quickly It Is pure to demand that it be taken over overby overby overby by government in the interests of national safety It is even stranger for leaders of organized labor to advocate government ownership of industry on the ground of monopoly Any industry that is a monopoly can be regulated or otherwise controlled by law On the other hand unions have demonstrated their ability to wreck private industry just as they have demonstrated their power pow pow- er to say when where and how millions of private citizens may make a living They exercise unregulated unregulated unregulated un un- un- un regulated monopolistic power over the most valuable asset the nation the possesses possesses the skills of American workmen If this kind ind of monopoly prevails our days of individual liberty are numbered |
