Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ccice2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccice5!ccice2!bwm From: bwm@ccice2.UUCP (Brad Miller) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.philosophy Subject: Re: FORCE, Democracy and Libertarianism Message-ID: <549@ccice2.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 12:50:27 EST Article-I.D.: ccice2.549 Posted: Thu Jan 10 12:50:27 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 09:16:20 EST References: <408@whuxl.UUCP> <811@ariel.UUCP> <406@klipper.UUCP> Reply-To: bwm@ccice2.UUCP (Bradford W. Miller) Organization: CCI Central Engineering, Rochester, NY Lines: 23 Xref: watmath net.politics:6801 net.philosophy:1353 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 -- ...[rochester, cbrma, rlgvax, ritcv]!ccice5!ccice2!bwm