Show WALTER SHEAD threat to free enterprise 41 T WISH someone would explain what kind of free enter enterprise pris JL it is that compels a free enterpriser to buy from his co competitor M or close up shop the the speaker was J P Sel berling president of Se berling rubber company before a house committees hearing on sale ot of government owned rubber plants was voicing op opposition csiti on to the same sort ol of thing independent steel aluminum glass and other th er in n aus I 1 r lea have complained about in the sale ol of other government owned plants plant sto to private industry when the only private industry big enough to buy Is the already monopolistic powerful competitive big industry A aa ft a matter n atter of fact there here Is no such thing as aa tree free enterprise in intal this country in the several branches of industry where the big boys b have a throttle hold on competition Sel berling declared first that these government owned synthetic rubber plants plant which cost the taxpayers a hau half billion dollars should not be sold datil antl anat lonal eme emergency agency rubber stockpile Is built nor so long as the tha government requires s mandatory ma batory uso use of synthetic rubber in tires he pointed out that comp companies nies ot of moderate size which could not buy the glants would be required to purchase synthetic rubber from their competitors peti tors which would give the big rubber manufacturers a real and possibly decisive competitive c advantage |