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...fashion to compel submission. This progression only serves more fully to expose the coercive purposes of the so-called tax imposed by the present Act. It is clear that the Department of Agriculture has properly described the plan as one to keep a noncooperating minority in line. This is coercion by economic pressure. The asserted power of choice is illusory." Thus, any comprehensive system of crop contracts and benefit payments, which in fact puts non-cooperators under economic compulsion, is as illegal as taxation if used for unpermitted purposes. Let Congress use income taxes or any other legal form...
Laborman Madden bluntly declared that industrial management "can and does effectively destroy the right of self-organization among workmen." When writing the Wagner Act another Congress had been well aware that in fighting labor, business did not hesitate to use intimidation, coercion, discharges, stool-pigeons, company unions. Moreover, Laborman Madden could cite a Supreme Court decision upholding the right to organize written by no less eminent a Republican than the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who once opined from the bench: "[Labor unions] were organized out of the necessities of the situation. A single employe was helpless in dealing...
...nomination, will perforce make one from what they consider Franklin Roosevelt's mistakes. To date he stands broadly for Economy and the Constitution. He advocates social justice without the New Deal, an agricultural export subsidy for the Farmers instead of AAA, collective bargaining for Labor without the coercion of the Wagner Bill. An old fox runs slowly, lest in his agitation his sweat leave a stronger trail for his pursuers. Somewhat on this principle, it was the pre-War fashion for aspirants to the Presidential nomination to proceed quietly in the early stages of the race...
...most of its recent gains in the wildest trading in a decade, and Cuban sugar securities nose-dived on the fear that the island's reciprocal trade pact might be annulled as an unconstitutional delegation of the Senate's treaty-making powers. And with all codes and coercion swept from the U. S. Business structure, endless readjustments were obviously in order. What those readjustments would be and where they would occur was businessmen's prime concern...
These facts should be obvious to any true believer in Democracy. Nevertheless, a tendency towards repression, towards the use of coercion to enforce an orthodoxy rigidly if unofficially defined, has been marked recently. It is chiefly as a repudiation of this tendency that the "Student News," however ridiculous or subversive its viewpoint may appear, should be encouraged. One need not believe in the wickedness of Mr. Durant nor in the divine inspiration of "Das Kapital" to be an uncompromising defender of free speech...