The right to work was one of my very first political explorations. Dear old Dad had made it his own for many years, preaching against union power abuse and supporting the National Right to Work Committee so faithfully that its chairman, Reed Larson, stopped by to meet him once while passing through Southside Virginia.
It was a grotesque, repellent subject due to the reportage of thuggish and mafia-like strongarm and revenge tactics -- terror, in a word -- marking the the bad side of the conflict. I'm sure I remember correctly that that faction had mafia connections. It was aided and abetted by the worst scum in politics -- if it wasn't the Kennedys it was some other such clan.
It felt so good to be supporting the "freedom" side of such a wholesome, clear-cut issue. Dad would occasionally mention that movie mogul Cecil B. DeMille risked his career by taking a stand against runaway Union might. On the Waterfront is one thing, an America that has sold most of its mills and factories to East Asia because of insanely jacked-up wages and benefits -- that's something else.
Patrick Buchanan is still writing away daily, turning out material often startling in its erudition, by turns masterly and unbearably banal. Here's an article painfully ironic for another reason: it starts with the great news that Michigan has joined the impressive ranks of right-to-work states, racks up facts that amount to labor unions' unintended but central role in the gutting of American manufacturing, and ends on a sadly ironic note to the effect that we're really not so advanced if "progress" results it a situation partly upside-out and inside-down (sic).
Translation: despite any good that labor unions have done, without them ameriKa would probably be much, much better shape if they'd never been heard from in the USA.
We've lost Sam Francis, Joe Sobran and others. It feels so good just to know Patrick J. is still at his post regardless of how much recognition he's getting at a given time.
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/12/14/buchanan-the-fall-of-the-house-of-labor/
BUCHANAN: THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF LABOR .
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