Show NEWS br hi D TT TF h TW W THE evja I 1 by released by western newspaper union UNIONS intemperate USE OP OF POWER WILL BRING REACTION washington the unions have accumulated power in the last 14 years which has led them beyond normal considerations of simple common human justice and created in them th n a state of mind in which no ri rights gats can exist except what they want human beings simply cannot handle handie power the weakness Is common to all power corrupts as it accumulates in the best and worst hands it weakens the normal sense of justice all the common human senses of fairness and eventually power destroys itself it has suicidal qualities which seem utterly ir resistible to human beings liap the insidious radioactive elements ir ir atomic energy this can be seen anywhere in history new or old the latest best example was hitler in world politics lie he certainly destroyed himself by taking in too much territory by expanding his power until it became a final frenzy of attack upon the world WANT TAXING rower POWER by the same processes in in which business bloated itself to self destruction of its great power in the decade before franklin roosevelt the unrestrained unions have come now to the point of asserting a right to tax the people lewis in coa coal to spend as much of their untaxed accumulations of wealth as to defeat truman and 2 to defeat congress whitney threat to completely deaden the life of the nation by stoppages of the essentials of life such as food fuel electricity transportation telephones strikes since VJ V J day to rule congress the president the nation this cannot be and it will not be if mr truman and congress cannot stop it the excesses of the unions will soon now lead inevitably to their self destruction in one way or another an absolute immunity from all law and common justice cannot long exist for any group of cl citizens ti there cannot be immunity from crimes of racketeering campaign contributions etc exemption from rom taxation immunity from suit injunction or responsibility tor for contracts tor for a minority of organized groups one group or all groups the supreme court cannot long continue to hand down decisions granting immunity from all law to a minority of the people this destroys common justice therefore all justice the politicians will not forever live in fear and confusion of the powers they have given away to an organized group because they will soon have no government or power indeed mr truman and the congress are trying already to get some back the zenith of union influence has constantly been declining as their excesses grew in the he past six months the solution Is quite simple restore through authority a sense of common justice equal justice do this by asserting simple truths and natural common rights there Is no excuse for abandoning democracy to do this because it is the right of the majority which is being imposed upon by a minority democracy merely needs to assert itself and function not grasp for dictatorship responsibility TO NATION the stressing of a few christian principles would not hurt let the unions realize their responsibility for public service as business has been required to realize them by law stress the rights of an individual to his responsibilities to his fellow men the rights of the other fellow the rights of the nation to work and growth there can be no right above common rights no superior group right to destroy or capture the people or nation or to make them suffer starve or die or any superior right to deny them the right to work and live in peace everyone really knows what Is fair when brought to his senses it is an abnormal state of 0 group mind with which we are dealing a state grown feverish with power and exhorted to excesses some laws need changing in common fairness by courts and congress but these changes will not do the job unless someone gets this nation back to accepting principles of common justice it if the unions spend all their millions and buy the election they win will soon lose the country by winning their annual demands for ever more increased pay and privileges costly to economics forcing prices too high tor for the average person to buy and live then will come dictatorship not because anyone wants it but because it would be a necessity to meet the will of the people to continue to live it has happened over and over again in europe la in south america ameria a in asia it can happen here |