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Indictment. Justice Arnold put his case against organized labor in one word -coercion. He wrote...
...They have the same kind of political and financial power to coerce government agencies, to threaten individual Congressmen and to frighten liberal critics by labeling them as opponents of a great moral cause. . . . Independent businessmen, consumers and farmers have had to sit back in enraged helplessness while labor used coercion for the following purposes: Price control, eliminating cheap methods of distribution, creating local trade barriers by restricting the use of materials made outside the state, preventing organization of new firms, eliminating small competitors and owner-operators, preventing the efficient use of machines and materials, retarding the efficient use of labor...
...dull weight of ignorance and fear, the soul of each man must be nourished to undertake of his own free will works which in their total are bigger than the slave-built wall of China and in their daily demands as warming as the building of a home. Coercion cannot order the materials; bombast cannot inspire the efforts; the fear of death cannot release the imagination's shortcuts or bring about the emotions' quick ability to generate for a time their superhuman strength...
...Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men, men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature...
Much more susceptible to the brand "unpatriotic" than the Senators defending their states from unjust coercion, is the group which insists on disrupting national unity by railroading through its pet cure-all as an emergency measure. Charles G. Sellers...