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From: bwm@ccice2.UUCP (Brad Miller)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: FORCE, Democracy and Libertarianism
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Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 12:50:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 10 12:50:27 1985
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In article <406@klipper.UUCP> biep@klipper.UUCP writes:
>	A labo[u]r union almost controls an industry. Many years ago
>	a man looking for work (which was scarce) came at that industry.
>	Three and two years ago two of his sons did the same. All three
>	had more or less the same experience.
>	They weren't communists and didn't want to be. However, the union
>	was. So they didn't want to share the union. I will leave away the
>	physical threats, since I assume the Libertarians will agree with
>	me on that point. I want to jump to the next step. The board of
>	directors of the industry was told: "There are non-unionists in 
>	this industry. Choose: either tell them to either go away or become
>	a union member, or we'll go on strike." Now all three are union
>	member, and pay to the communist party.

Not likely scenario. Actually, the company (given it were non-communist) would
just say. "Fine. Go on strike and you will all be blacklisted and NEVER WORK
AGAIN." You forget that the unions outlawed trusts, but in a real free-market
economy both unions and trusts would be fair game.

Brad Miller

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