Show democracy vs isms iams the only workable form of democratic government which the world has ever known is not based upon the theory that everybody should have absolute liberty but rather that everybody should have as much liberty as possible without hurting the whole society unrestricted liberty for all is anarchy complete liberty for special groups leads lead to communism or fascism or some other ism it is strange strang ge therefore that some americans who prize their democracy should let one group in its society have almost complete freedom from control labor unions have fewer legal restraints upon them than any other group yet every day they demand and take more freedom it used to be a crime to interfere with the united states mails yet now in the midwest mid west it is believed strike pickets are arc censoring mail before they it it go into factories it used to be that a man could work if he wanted to yet now strike pickets are making men go on relief by refusing to let them work it u used sed to be that a man could either join or refrain from joining a union yet it is reported that a recent chrysler Chry plant sit down strike was called to make some union members pay their dues anu and to force others to join it used to bye ba that a man did not have to belong to a union to hold a job yet a general motors sit down strike was threatened because two un unionists aid not like to aloag alongside side two rion non unionists it used to be that when a man i forked hard and long and built himself up a business he could run that business yet another sit down strike foicey such a mai ma i to retire delire from control of his busi business nebs it used to be that a contract was a contract yet there have been nearly threescore three throe score sit down strikes in automobile plants since contracts were signed forbidding them where and how must it end in another ism or the restoration of real democracy |