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unquestionably would have killed any possibility of a strike. «•
However, Truman, playing dirty ward politics which is all he knows, told Murray before the strike started that he would not use the Taft-Hart-r ley Act and the strike was on. This country, that means you and me. and all of our neighbors and other friends has paid a terrible price which it’s impossible to calculate because Sidney Hillman, a union labor boss, cleared that little guy for 4 Vice President in 1944.
What about fhe future? John L. Lewis, is a matter of a few weeks, may take his miners out on strike and shut the steel mills down again.
How much longer are the American people going to stand for this sort of thing? —How
much longer are they going to permit a half dozen unscrupulous, power-hungry union labor bosses to have complete control over the welfare of 160 million Americans?
When are they—the people—going to have sense enough or guts enough to force Congress to bust up the union labor monopoly which is by far the most dangerous monopoly this country has ever known?
The remedy which I bave spelled „ out time and again is for Congress to amend the Taft-Hartley Act to put a ban on industry-wide bargaining.
Now while the congressional campaign is on would be a mighty good time for you to find, out how the candidates of both parties in your district stand on this important matter. Ask them point blank, “if elected, will you vote to put a ban on industry-wide bargaining?” and, if neces• sary, insist on a straightforward yes or no answer.
This is only one of several things in the national picture which must be corrected if every American is to continue to have the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness so long as he does not interfere with these same rights of any other American.
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