| Show nn iC SO So You'd Better Watch Out How FI You Handle Your Business L. L If youre you're a merchant i in this community you'd better be careful how you handle your affairs and treat your hired help or the Mayor might step in and take over If you have a farm you'd better be sure you raise the right crops and pay the right wages for help or some Soil Conservation or official might take over the management management management man man- of the farm The Hunt Foods people had better pay farmers exactly what the growers want for peas and corn and had better meet all wage demands of employees or the county commissioners commissioners commissioners commis commis- might take over the plants at Ephraim and Manti If you run a sheep herd on the public domain and Wand the National Forest you'd better be sure the herders are paid all they want that the wool grows to a desired length and that your profits do not exceed a certain amount or the governor or other sate or federal agency might take over herd your s The above are are rather fa far r fetched just now it would seem but if President Truman can take over the steel plants as he has done and get away with it then there is no limit as to what various government agencies might do with all other private property including your own home It seems to us President Truman would have had just as much right and been just as justified in saying to the steel workers Look here You boys are making more than you need to live on Why some of you actually had money to waste on vacations and on investments in life in insurance insurance insurance in- in and such non-government non things last year Youve You've been making a profit and that's not right So now I am ousting Phil Murray as your president From here on you are going to work for the government and at a wage that will make certain that you have no surplus left over for luxuries or for putting away for your future security Just leave that all to me and no kicking either Im I'm your boss bossY Y J from now now on and you are my property Ownership of property was in the constitution before the amendment to abolish slavery If the president or any other agency can legally repeal the right to own and manage property he can also repeal your right to freedom and can reinstate slavery Personally we have little confidence in the presidents president's figures on profits Since he has been running the government government govern govern- ment the nation has gone deeper and deeper into debt until we doubt if he knows the difference between profits and It doesn't appear that he does docs the way he and his henchmen henchmen henchmen hench hench- men boast about prosperity and at the same time sink the people deeper and deeper into the quagmire of debt Seems Mr T T. did not do so well in the haberdashery business prior to the time the machine picked him up and made a senator of him How then has has' hashe he acquired acquired acquired ac ac- such ability that he is qualified to judge fudge as to the management of the nations nation's greatest industry steel We believe the seizure of the steel ind industry stry by the government is the most niost outrageous act of tyranny this nation has seen since the constitution was adopt adopted d. d If permitted J to stand we may have to fight another revolution to free ourselves from a a. a far worse tyrant than was George the theo Third to ll 0 o |
