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public welfare-withdrawing supplies or
services essential for health, life, or na·
tional security. Possibly worse even than
such pressure to enforce selfish demands,
is the legalized tyranny of these organiza·
tions over the individual's right to work and
the employer's right to produce.
Recent extension of such tyranny compels
an artisan, satisfying his employer, to have
trade·union fees deducted from his wages
or lose his job, even though he disapproves
of and has resigned from the trade·union
in question; and the employer must serve
the trade· union by collecting its member·
ship fee through deduction from wages.
Thus, under the guise of "maintenance
of membership", and by other methods,
the "closed shop" has been given the sta·
tus of national policy.
Moreover, especially since trades·union·
ism quarreled and split, the national war
effort has been imperiled by so·called "jur·
isdictional" strikes, to settle whether A.F.L.
or C.I.O. or another was "boss" of that
particular war effort; and no faction, after
extorting from the government dictatorial
powers over its allotted share of our war
industry, has been able to prevent "un·
authorized" strikes.
With trades·unioni~m in the forefront,
the farm and silver blocs, the huge vote
financed by unemployment and agricultural
"veterans" (past, present and future) con·
stitute a group of minority dictatorships
within the nation, whose menace outweighs
the more traditional evils of "spoils·pa-
tronage".
Every reasonable person would approve
of national groupings of workers at trades
or veterans of wars, which are organized
to promote the usefulness of such trades
or services, and to help those in need who
are or have been worthily connected there·
with; provided that such organization util-
ize their own talents and resources, without
political pressure to extort from the nation
more than is just to others-leaving ques·
tions of tate and national aid to the un-
biased judgment of all.
Such reform would greatly help to keep
upward the trend of American citizenry-
for your tolerance during these trying times.
We have appreciated your kind consideration
and hope to merit your continued cooperation
and patronage in the future. In the New Year
we wish you only the best and may yours be
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wealth of any Country.
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Few American CItizenS, except those
benefiting therefrom, will deny the major
evils indicated in the foregoing paragraphs.
Nevertheless, our citizens generally support
our present democratic practices, as a
whole, because they believe that, notwi.th.
standing such supposedly inherent eVils,
American unlimited democracy has proved
itself to be the hest form of government
the world has yet seen.
On the basis that "the proof of the pud·
ding i in the eating", they claim that the
far higher scale·of-living in the United
States- where every four and one·half per·
sons had pre-war a private automobile, and
where every working person now receives
the world' highe t wages for 40 to 48 hours
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enth day)-demQnstrates the unique ex-
cellence of our present democratic methods.
Because we already have the best form
of government, in an ill-governed world, is
the very rea on we should eliminate its out·
standing evils; and thus provide ourselves,
and any other nations who desire and are
fit for peaceful freedom, with the type of
na tional government which is essential to
the success of any system of collective se·
curity for world peace.
Moreover, such superficial reasoning, of
those content with our present political
practices, neglects these dominating facts:
(a) We received, as a free gift so to
speak, the greatest and richest Country
ever possessed by anv Nation;
(b) We have since been living recklessly
on the capital of that vast natural wealth.
We have been consuming not only what we
produce, but also our irreplaceable natural
assets; (.f une 25, 1943, the Secretary of the
Navy predicted the exhaustion, within
twenty years, of our known oil reserves!)
(c) Fortunately, it is false that the po·
litical evi ls we have developed are inherent
in the democratic system: and
(d) Fortunately, it is true that they can
be sufficiently eradicated, if we will, with-
out domestic disturbance and with untold
benefit to national and international life.
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progres ively required.
Th~re is no longer an easily penetrated
frontier, beyond which lie rich opportuni-
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