Show labor cannot strike in a course of an opinion handed down in portland oregon ore on circuit judge walter booza said labor which has the ae legal 9 al right to strike and engage in peaceful picketing against private employers cannot strike against the government or any arm of the government he further implemented this view by saying bluntly stated under no circumstances can there be lawful picketing or striking against the state or any part thereof this is an unequivocal expression of a generally accepted legal principle the government is supreme and a strike against it would be in the nature of rebellion it could not be tolerated tolt rated it would of necessity be broken and all resources of government would be mobilized to do the job what is the significance of this to labor the answer can be stated simply if we are to have government owned business which is socialism and if we are to have ever increasing governmental control over our economic life we will see a steady loss of freedom on the part of labor once government becomes a mass employer the working man will take whatever the want him to have he will totally lack any effective means of bettering lids his lot and that in the long run is what creates slave labor on the communist pattern I 1 to put the case another way we will have free labor and free unions only as long as we have free enterprise and privately owned business the two are in separable they are based on exactly the same concept every dictator as soon as he communizes industry destroys the labor unions and shackles the workers every man becomes a serf |