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Show Battle Creek! ; Breeze K. B. Years ago a group of American patriots resisted the oppressive ex-tortations ex-tortations of King George of England, Eng-land, and in doing so laid the foundations for the world's greatest great-est Democracy. The principal proclaimed by them, that "taxation without representation rep-resentation was unfair and unjust, 7 sr v W. fc ft! -i. .. i 1? I ' , has remained throughout the years the bulwark bul-wark of representative repres-entative government. gov-ernment. Today, 17 7 years after this i epoch - making incident, a n American labor leader has defied de-fied the National Na-tional Labor Board's decis- ion, and called a damaging coal strike. The point at issue being a matter of forty cents per day, which was trimmed from the $1.90 demands of the labor boss. The National Labor Board is a governmental agency, and as such represents every citizen in the United Un-ited States. If this board is compelled com-pelled by force to acceed to the demands of the labor leader, then we have no representation in Washington with sufficient power to protect the rights of the common com-mon citizen. The granting of this forty cents daily wage boost will be a cash tribute that every resident of the . United States will be forced to pay; since the price of coal and related commodities will be increased in-creased accordingly. What labor leaders and union members often forget is that the freedoms and liberties which have made possible the remarkable gains that labor has made during the past years, have been the direct di-rect result of the benefits of representative rep-resentative government. For over one hundred fifty years, no enemy force has invaded the United States because men and boys, just like those now fighting in Korea, have been willing will-ing to obey the decisions of their government. That the great majority of Americans Am-ericans conform willingly to the regulations imposed by representative represent-ative government, is the only reason rea-son that our democracy has endured endur-ed these many years. This fact we could all do well to remember. So long 'til Friday. |