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an excerpt from:
The Strange Death of FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
A History of the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty America's Royal Family
Emanuael M. Josephson�1948
CHEDNEY PRESS
127 East 69th Street
New York 21, N. Y.
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CHAPTER XXI
F.D.R.'S "NEW DEAL FOR THE MASSES"
"SOCIAL SECURITY" AND "LABOR'S GAINS"
The War, which Roosevelt and his Dynastic bosses had worked so systematically
to bring about, offered the ideal approach to grooming of the United States
and the world for dictatorship and monopoly. The regimentation of industry
which the NRA had failed to attain, the war "emergency" made inevitable.
Likewise political dictatorship under the Commander-in-Chief was unavoidable
and regimentation of the nation within and without the armed forces was a
"must."
The wartime regimentation of the nation avoided revealing the true purpose,
fostering national and international trusts and monopolies of a private
character and frank dictatorship. Such "trusts" had been and still were the
pet hates of the Marxist, Communist and selfstyled "liberal" elements. The
error of the NRA and the first New Deal had been that its monopolistic
purposes were too obvious to dissemble and that was an important cause for
its failure. The conspirators now went to the opposite extreme of pretending
to fight the very things that they intended to bring about. That was the
truly Machiavellian cunning of the plan that so thoroughly deceived the
public regarding purposes of the later Dynastic activities.
The first, peacetime New Deal had openly turned over the latchstring to the
public purse to the Dynastic bankers, to Dynastic industrialists and to
relatives. They were given the cream of the graft. To the rank and file of
the nation, especially to poorer classes, it had thrown a sop in the pattern
of the Gracchi and other demagogues of history, in the form of Relief, which
was bribery for purchase of votes and a spoils system on a vaster and more
corrupt scale than has been dreamed of or dared in all of human history. The
mob was given the skimmed milk of the graft.
Historically there was nothing in Roosevelt's, or Bismarck's, New Deal that
was not an integral part of the New Deal launched by the Gracchi in ancient
Rome. There was nothing missing in FDR's program of the laws of Rome except
one. In Rome the receipt of Relief was made a hereditary privilege for 500
years.
There was, however, an added wrinkle to FDR's appeal to the mob that was
uncalled for in Rome's. He offered to restore prosperity by abolishing
prohibition. It was soon found, as was expected by the more sober citizenry,
that prosperity was thereby restored to the liquor industries and vendors
only; and the balance of the community was richer only in glow�but poorer in
purse. The Dynasty and its allies are heavily interested in the liquor
industries. They grew richer. Their depression was relieved, as in all other
instances where the Dynasty was involved. For the rest of the nation the
depression rolled on unrelieved by the flow of liquor, except in spirits.
The unemployed were placed on Relief through the WPA, the PWA, and a host of
alphabetic and constantly changing bureaucratic agencies which in their
multiplicity and confusion justified numerous irregularities which were
introduced by deliberate plan. The dole was openly designed to discourage
people from working so as to hold down the production that would arise from
greater employment. Relief agencies such as the WPA were frankly created and
administered for the purpose of purchasing or extracting supporting votes
from the recipients.
Politically influential reliefers got more in Relief than they had earned
ever before in their lives; and they lived on the fat of the land. But the
great minority received scarcely enough to hold body and soul together. They
lived on the verge of starvation, seeing neither butter nor meat for week
after week. Malnutrition among them rose to heights which had never before
been seen in the history of the country.
In 1934, the author reported on the basis of schoolchildren visiting New York
Ci[t]y Board of Health eye clinics, most of whom we're on Relief, that more
than a sixth were suffering of malnutrition that was so severe that it
seriously impaired their vision. The particular type of malnutrition involved
was a deficiency of vitamin A which previously had been known to exist on so
wide a scale only in poverty stricken China. Following the appearance of this
report, the author's scientif[i]c publications were stopped by a rigid
censorship, to prevent the facts becoming known. Two years later after
temporary restoration of employment had resulted in improved diets and
material improvement in nutrition, the Administration and social service
acknowledged the existence of the conditions which the author had described.
Workers under NRA were extended a minimum wage of $12 to $15 a week and
kudoes were rendered to the "right of collective bargaining." They were also
extended the fraud of "social security" and the claptrap of Bismarck's
Made-in-Germany "New Deal." In return for payments deducted from their wages,
certain classes of workers are offered first, a pittance of unemployment
insurance which often did not equal the Relief dole; and second, a pension
after reaching the age of sixty-five that is not enough to starve on
respectably. It is made certain that the pensioners will starve, in the case
of the average individual with no private income, by barring them from even
those shabby "benefits" if they earn an adequate supplementary sum by
continuing to work beyond pensionable age.
In return for the payments made, the worker has no legally secured rights.
What rights may redound to him are subject to the constantly changing rules
and regulations of the Social Security bureaucrats. The bureau. crats' only
interest is to provide social security for themselves in the form of jobs.
Under the regulations which they set up from time to time, fewer and fewer
workers are eligible for pensioning. Thus a man totally and permanently
blinded to-day is entitled to neither a pension nor the return of his money
unless he is sixtyfive years of age and has worked and paid his assessments
up to retirement. Since most blind folk can not get jobs, they are ineligible
for benefits. The same is true of many folk over forty who in normal times
can not secure employment. Death benefits or return of money paid in are
denied in an ever wider group of cases by bureaucratic rules that change from
day to day.
An ever larger proportion of the contributors to the fund never receive any
return�not even a refund of contributions. In the case of private insurance
companies the courts have ruled that to fail to pay benefits due, or else, to
return the premiums paid in, con. stitutes fraud. But government agencies
including the Social Security Bureau may and do practice these frauds with
impunity while the "liberal" political donkeys bray about workers' benefits,
and the even more assinine electorate believe them.
The most stupid aspect of the humbug and fraud of "Social Security" is the
fact that the money collected from the workers must be spent on current
government expenses and only tokens of the liability for these funds in the
form of government bonds are left in the S.S. treasury. Under our present
scarcity-economy set-up, the failure to spend most of the Social Security
funds immediately, would cause contraction of the currency volume; and that
in turn would cause progressively deepening depression and increasing
unemployment. Unemployment prior to retirement would bar the contributor from
enjoying the benefits of Social Security unless the unemployed were placed on
a dole and their security payments made for them out of the dole. The dole
would have to be paid in part out of Social Security funds by the sale of
Government bonds to the fund. As a consequence of the diminishing employment,
however, the contributions to the Social Security fund would diminish, thus
steadily reducing the amount available for purchase of bonds and payment of
doles. The same progressive contraction would pre. vail in industry and the
taxes derived therefrom. Eventually the Social Security fund, the government
and industry would all be bankrupt. Therefore the Government must spend the
Social Security funds as soon as it receives them.
But now that the Government has accepted its "duty" to spend all of the
Social Security funds currently, to avoid paralyzing our scarcity-economy
monetary system, other hydra-headed evil consequences appear. First, the
forced increased expenditures by the Government designed to put the money
collected for Social Security, back into circulation, in order to avoid
contraction of the currency volume and depression, results in inflation.
Inflation causes a rise in cost of government and therefore a rise in taxes.
Increased taxes means further inflation and higher prices. This inflation is
aggravated and bankruptcy hastened by the necessity of currently raising
taxes to raise money for repayment of the bonds placed in the Social Security
vaults in order to provide for payment of pensions and for the interest on
the bonds. Thus there is set into operation a vicious spiral of constant,
uncontrolled inflation with eventual bankruptcy of the Nation.
The absurdity of the Social Security situation rises to the highest zenith
when one stops to consider that the pensioners can find no security in either
money or bonds; nor can they clothe or shelter themselves in them. Security
rests only in having available for pur. chase necessities of life at all
times. Droughts and other upsets make it necessary to produce always at
maximum capacity, and to set up continuous reserves and surpluses to make
sure that necessities of life at all times will be available. But reserves
and surpluses, in our present speculative economic set-up spell a drop in
prices, a loss of employment in production because of dropping out of
marginal producers, and the wiping out of surpluses.
In short in a scarcity economy, such as our normal economy, the surpluses
which insure security can not be attained. But under the New Deal economy
that restricts production and plows under crops, the Administration is
destroying the reserves that would have freed us of the necessity of
hungering for food, clothing and housing (in the form of rationing). It
destroys real security, while taxing the nation for pretended security. The
credits which are being set up in the Social Security books in Washington for
the moneys taken from the workers present no security whatsoever. They offer
only a mirage of security.
This fraud has been possible because the gullible and unthinking public, hear
and believe what the pol. iticians say, but are too dull to perceive that
they do the very opposite.
The absurd inadequacy and undependability of the New Deal's Social Security
program is vividly portrayed and attested by the fact that many powerful
unions�including United Mine Workers, International Ladies' Garment
Workers�have spurned its provisions. They have established pension and
retirement systems that more closely approach adequacy and are less
completely fraudulent, with funds raised as a private tax by assessments
levied upon employers and industries.
When it had made its war official, the Dynasty carried on its skullduggery
behind the front of real and pretended war needs, of sham "soak the Rich"
class warfare and of Bismarxian pro-laborism. That was labelled the second
New Deal.
The needs of war offered a pretext for shamelessly betraying the security of
the United States in favor of the *interests of the far flung Rockefeller
Empire. The story has been related of the Rockefeller-Standard Oil-I. G.
Farbenindustrie conspiracy to deprive United States and the Allies of rubber
which would have resulted in an Axis victory, had it not been exposed and
checked. But this is only one of the conspiracies centering about essentials
of war and peace which menace national prosperity and security.
Tin is one of the prime necessities of modern life. It is absolutely
essential for national existence, defense and for war. Despite the fact that
tin may be mined in many parts of the world including the United States, a
British and Dutch cartel conspire to monopolize the tin industry of the world
by suppressing its production elsewhere, with every device at their command
and at the command of their governments. The tin which they produce the Tin
Cartel ration out at exorbitant prices to the countries of the world. They
deliberately and systematically discourage or block the production of tin by
corrupt machinations to prevent competition and hold prices at an exorbitant
level.
The United States is particularly rich in tin. Production of tin was
undertaken in the United States by the British tin interests when Cornwall
tin ran low in the 1860's just before the alluvial Malay deposits came into
production. It was mined by them in the State of South Dakota on property
that now belongs to the Dakota Tin and Gold Company. From this property there
was sent to England for refining, shiploads of high grade tin oxide
(cassiterite) ore.
Shortly thereafter, the British discovered the commercial possibilities of
alluvial ore in the Malay Peninsula, with its cheap labor. They undertook to
discredit and paralyze competitive tin production for the purpose of
maintaining their monopoly. In the United States they found ready allies in
political circles. Boycott of American and other tin was required of
industries whose products were admitted to the British and Dutch markets on a
favorable basis. Support of the Tin Cartel was required of companies such as
the Rockeeller-Standard Oil interests that sought to operate or produce in
British or Dutch possessions.
The success of the operations of the Tin Cartel in maintaining a world
scarcity of tin almost won the war for Germany and Japan. The stockpile of
tin in the United States was so small that bearings for aviation engines had
to be made with silver as a poor substi. tute for tin. Failure of these
silver alloy bearings caused numerous crashes and deaths.
Some tin was made available for the United States by the Tin Cartel in
partnership with the Rockefeller interests, from the Patino Bolivian tin
mines. This tin ore is so highly impure that it is impossible to refine it by
ordinary methods or to the ordinary grade of pur. ity. The U.S. Government
built for the Cartel-Rockefeller interests a special refinery in Texas for
the refining of this ore at a cost of many million dollars; and it paid so
high a price and bonus for the inferior Bolivian ore that Patino Mines stock
earned more per year than the price of little over five dollars a share at
which it sold at the start of the War.
Even under the stress of war, however, the U.S. government did whatever it
could to discourage production of the higher grade American tin. Thus the
Dakota Tin and Gold Company shipped one ton of high grade alluvial tin to the
Metal Reserve Board, and was paid twenty-nine cents a pound. This was less
than the actual cost of production at the time. But the payments made to
Bolivia constitute a small fraction of the cost of their tin. Enemy submarine
action made shipping dangerous and costly in money and lives. It also made
the flow of imported supplies precarious. Shipping space had to be diverted
to tin from other necessities. The Bolivian tin was therefore far more costly
than the actual price paid.
Even if the government had subsidized the domestic production of tin to the
extent of paying ten times the Bolivian price, it would have been worth-while
in terms of national security and saving of lives. But high subsidy is not
necessary. American tin, in such case as the Dakota Tin and Gold Company,
could be produced at virtually no cost, as a by-product in the production of
sodium feldspar, which is a valuable. commercial product, if adequate
financial support were given in starting production. Either directly or
through the SEC, the Government has barred the financing of Am. erican mining
and tin production. British propaganda, supported by U.S. Government
agencies, has persistently and falsely discredited American tin because it
could readily supply all the needs of the United States at prices far lower
than the Cartel's. The Rockefeller-Patino tin interests have been subsidized
heavily by the New Deal. Overtures we're made to Roosevelt, Wallace, the
Army, the Navy and Various New Deal officials to help the American tin
industry get on its feet with RFC loans of the same type as was extended to
Rockefeller Bolivian tin producers and refineries, to help it provide the tin
that was so direly needed in our war effort, and the lack of which was
costing many lives. The The Company was flatly rebuffed. American tin was not
wanted, officers of the Company were told, even if lack of it meant loss of
lives. The reasons stated were quite frank. Rockefeller's agent, Henry
Wallace, stated that he wanted no competition with the British-Dutch tin
cartel, or with the Rockefeller-Patino interests. Cordell Hull, who it was
rumored had a sizeable investment in the British Tin Cartel stocks,
vigorously opposed any encouragement of American tin production. On April 23,
1948 the International Tin Study Group conference, representing the Tin
Cartel reported that there would be, according to their plans, a shortage of
20,000 to 40,000 tons of tin a year between 1948 and 1950 with no provision
for stockpiling for war.
The desire of the Dynasty to leave the United States dependent upon foreign
sources of tin, columbium, tantalum, and of other essential minerals and
commodities, as in the case of rubber, clearly indicates that the safety and
security of the United States means little to them. It appears to make clear
that they care little if the United States wins or is defeated in war, so
long as their own selfish purposes are served. It also indicates that they
have a community of interests with enemy lands that would make them secure
even in case of an enemy victory. And as a matter of fact, either complete
exhaustion of the United States or its eventual military defeat, or both,
seems to be 'regarded by them as almost a sine qua non for the destruction of
democracy in the U. S.
It can be predicted with reasonable certainty that in event of war with the
Soviets, the East Indies and probably also the Bolivian sources of tin will
fall into Russia's hands at the very start of hostilities. Russia has been
very busy buying up our sources of strategic minerals with "Lend Lease" funds
supplied them from the U. S. Treasury by the Dynasty.
The sham "soak the rich" program is improperly labelled. It is really a "soak
certain rich" program. Its purpose is to maintain a monopoly of wealth by
pre. venting any working man from becoming rich through his efforts. This is,
accomplished by imposition of progressively higher taxes on everything that a
man makes by working. But the wealthy are protected in their wealth, and the
speculative fraternity are fostered, by various loopholes in the tax law, and
by the provisions of the capital gains tax. The wealthiest interests escape
taxation by the United States completely by the provision of the law that
exempts from taxes any money made by Americans in foreign lands. This has
serv. ed to stimulate the flight of capital of the wealthy from the United
States and to foster, with American funds, foreign competitive industry.
The Labor Baron agents of the Dynasty enjoy tax exemption that is conferred
on the unions whose funds they control. Thus there is developed an ever
tightening monopoly of wealth by the Dynasty. This monopoly is being
tightened at the insistence of the Labor Barons, supposedly on behalf of the
workers and as a part of their Marxist program.
The NRA function of wrecking industries that are not controlled by the
conspirators was assigned to the Office of Price Control. At the top of the
OPA were put such men as advertising agent Chester Bowles, who posed as the
white hope of the Communists but could be trusted by the Dynasty and the
Rockefellers to protect their interests. The lesser offices of the OPA were
deliberately filled with Communists and their sympathizers who were
encouraged to run riot in their savage anti-capitalist "production for use
and not for profit" fanaticism. They were left to vent their destructive
mania on small property owners and the industries that the conspirators
sought to destroy or suppress and take over into their monopolies.
The OPA Office of Rent Control offers an excellent illustration of the
operation and consequences of the OPA. The personnel consisted of rabid
Communists and crooked real estate brokers. All of them were absolute
dictators. All of them, down to the lowliest clerk were a law-unto-themselves
as far as concerns the landlord. From their maliciously destructive acts
there is no appeal. The employed brokers worked in collusion with friends to
depress the value of property which they wished to acquire at forced sale.
They placed rentals at so low a level as to inflict losses on the owners,
that compelled sales. The Communist employees had but one purpose-to foster
Communism by disrupting and destroying production of housing and of every
other necessity of life. By deliberately setting prices and rents so low as
to inflict bankrupting losses they blocked production and provision of
housing. They then blamed the havoc which they had wrought on Capitalism; and
advanced more Communi sm as the only remedy.
The OPA and CIO revolutionary unionism, and their successors, have been the
chief agencies of Communism and of the Dynasty's conspiracy for dictatorship
and supermonopoly. Since the procedure of the OPA that pretended to base
rents on comparative values that had prevailed in years prior, comparison was
a matter of judgement at best, and arbitrary, when at the worst. The landlord
had no recourse. The landlord under their procedure is criminal suspect in
advance and he has no recourse and no opportunity to defend himself against
the falsest allegations. Under the law, the landlord was, and still is,
robbed of his right of contract, is required to carry the whole cost and
burden for the government of subsidizing low rents, while paying constantly
rising taxes and operating expenses. In short, the landlord is faced with the
confiscation of his property without any process, not in the interest of the
nation but of private individuals. The entire situation is unConstitutional
and plainly dishonest. It is legitimatized thievery.
The housing shortage which now plagues the nation is a deliberately planned
consequence of this rent con. trol policy. Preservation of their jobs was
almost as cogent a force in that policy, as are the desire to inflict damages
on property holders and the other mo. tives that have been mentioned.
Employees of the OPA Office of Rent Control openly acknowledged that the
permanence of their jobs depended upon creating and maintaining a housing
shortage. They planned to force the creation of permanent housing
administration which would take them over and make their jobs permanent. This
they plan to accomplish through the Taft-Ellender-Wagner Housing Bill, which
is designed to Communize ("nationalize") housing.
If the courts had not been so completely packed and corrupt, it would be
possible for the landlords to recover from the Government the losses which it
has inflicted on them. When the Government undertakes legitimately to
subsidize, the burden must be borne by the taxpayer and the subsidies paid
out of the Treasury. Landlords who have been forced to privately sub. sidize
low rents have a legitimate claim on the Treasury for the losses inflicted on
them that will be up. held by honest courts.
Complementing the OPA and price control in de. stroying competition and
bolstering monopolies, rationing was extremely effective. Years of "New Deal"
scarcity economy had stripped the nation of all commodity reserves and had
reduced production of raw materials to a low ebb. This situation served to
justify rationing of commodities. But in every instance the rationing was
made, as in the case of sugar, to serve the monopolistic purposes of the
Dynasty.
In the case of oil and petroleum products, however, rationing was completely
unjustified. Various state and national agencies, such as the Railroad
Commission in Texas, and voluntary prorationing agreements entered into by
the industry, had served to reduce the U. S. oil production to a mere
fraction of the potential pro. duction. The excuse offered for this procedure
was the desire to conserve the life of the fields. But the real reason was
that the Standard Oil and other major companies did not wish to pay the
higher price for American oil when they could buy, or steal, Venezuelan or
other oil for a mere fraction of the American price.
By the influx of foreign oil and restriction of oil production, before the
OPA and by price control during the war, the price of oil was kept at so low
a level that it did not pay the American producer to continue black oil and
marginal production, or to seek new production.
The nation's distribution facilities up to the time of the war were geared to
the importation of foreign oil by tankers. During the war a large proportion
of the tankers were sunk by submarine warfare. But even that did not imply
any real need for rationing of oil and gasoline during the war. For the
number of cars on the road was so severely cut down by restriction of auto
and tire production that there would have been ample fuel to go around, if
the production and distribution of oil had not been disrupted deliberately.
As a result of rationing, numerous producers and distributors of gasoline and
oil were forced out of business or were compelled to sell their businesses to
the Standard Oil and other larger companies, most of them Rockefeller
controlled, that could hold out. At the end of the war the monopoly of oil
was tighter than ever. The artificial shortage of oil was maintained by the
shipment to Russia and to the Rockefeller-Standard Oil development in Saudi
Arabia and other foreign lands of most of the available equipment for
production and distribution of oil. As a consequence the United States now
freeze 'in winter because of lack of oil and other fuels, industries are
paralyzed and must shut down at times, rationing is being brought back, and
in case of war, a shortage of oil and gas may spell disaster and defeat.
Russia when she seizes Saudi Arabia and Iran will have more oil than the
United States thanks to the activities of the Rockefeller Empire. But the
profits of the monopoly have become enormous be. cause of the shortage.
The most amazingly ingenious and ingenuous sham incorporated by the Dynasty
in its New Deal is its mechanism for regimenting labor under their own aegis
through "labor leaders" and its use for establishing monopolies that are
entirely within the law. Wagner's subservience to the Rockefeller-Standard
Oil interests makes it clear that the Wagner Labor Relations Act is designed
to serve their purposes. It epitomizes and points up the warfare of Labor on
Capital in so truly a Bismarxian sense that Wagner has earned for himself the
title of "America's Bismarck", a noble title for a pawn.
The Supreme Court decision wiping out the NRA was mock obeisance to public
sentiment against monopolies in restraint of trade, through control of
machinery, that has been built up through decades. With equal diligence there
had been built up by Marxist agencies and pseudo "liberals" a sentiment in
favor of union monopolies of labor. It required little astuteness to discern
that industry could be monopolized even more completely by control of labor
than by control of machinery.
The Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty, FDR and the New Deal, demanded through the
National Labor Relations Board, of certain industries not controlled by them
or their allies, that they turn over management, or share it with the Labor
Barons of the unions involved. As a result Roosevelt was hailed as a
"champion of Labor". This pose contrasts sharply with the harsh and ruthless
attitude of the Dynasty towards the workers in the industries which they
control.
A number of members of the Dynasty, including FDR, and his uncle Frederic, A.
Delano, shared ownership of the Graceton Coal Co. and of the Vintondale
Colliery Co. which operates a mine at Vintondale, Cambria County, Pa. The
production of the mines was sold through the Delano Coal Co. which drained
off most of the earnings.
Launched about 1892, the Company built over 200 homes and employed about 400
men. The town was completely owned and rigidly controlled by the Company.
Strangers could not enter town without the per. mission of the superintendent
of the Company. Armed guards patrolled the town. Workers dared not discuss
conditions in the mine with strangers. They were compelled to buy at the
Company's store at high prices.
The Company persistently fought unionization with violence. In 1922, the UMW
was enjoined by the Company from holding a meeting in town on property owned
by the union. In 1933, after Roosevelt's inaugura. tion and his adoption of a
friendly policy towards labor unions, as a political device, the mine was or.
ganized by the UMW.
On March 18, 1940, the Vinton Collieries Co. shut down the mine, locked out
the workers and left without paying them $40,000 in wages due them, after
sneaking. out 86 carloads of coal under a large guard. The Company's store
was shut down and its stock of food left to rot, while the workers and their
families were left destitute and hungry. The Company refusedto sell the food
in its store to the workers. Eventually the miners were placed on Relief and
they were furnished some items of food by the Federal Surplus Commodities
Corp.
There is no record that Eleanor R. ever made one of her "welfare" visits to
this mine, of the type that she made to the West Virginia mines, that were so
widely publicized, or that she ever extended them any of her notorious
"charity". Maybe it struck too close to home?
The fostering of labor unionism on a vast and unprecedented scale by the
Dynasty and the Rockefeller Empire is completely understandable. By doing so
they have completely regimented labor under their own control through their
own appointed agents, provocateurs and dictators, more pleasantly labelled
"labor leaders". This they have done through the Wagner Labor Relations Act
and other "New Dear, labor legislation, which have robbed workers of their
freedom and their right to work at a vocation of their own choice. This right
the Dynasts have farmed out to the goons, racketeers, ward heelers and
zealots, the "labor leaders" who are their vassal agents. They would be more
correctly named "Labor Barons", for they serve in the same capacity as do
barons in feudal states.
Under the franchise of the Wagner Act the Dynasty extended to the Labor
Barons a series of so-called "rights" that flagrantly violate the rights that
are supposedly guaranteed to the nation at large by the Constitution and the
Bill of Rights. These special "rights" of the Labor Barons, that are equally
enjoyed by the Dynasty include the following among others:
1. The "right" to extort from vassal workers a private tax for the privilege
of working.
2. The "right" to dictate who may work, when he may work, and to virtually
enslave the worker.
3. The "right" to practice blackmail and extortion on all employers and
industries, and to levy unlimited assessments on them.
4. The "right" to wage unlimited class warfare on the rest of the community
for their own special interests and to sabotage the nation at large.
5. The "right" to mercilessly profiteer, to exploit communities and to
deprive them of the very necessities of life, whenever it suits their purpose.
6. The "right" to betray the country and to traitorously traffic with its
enemies�as is instanced by the negotiations of John L. Lewis with Hitler, and
the CIOPAC betrayal of our nation to Communism and Russia.
7. The "right" to conspire to restrain trade.
8. The "right" to disrupt 'industry and to destroy whole industries.
9. The "right" to bring whole communities, and if they desire, the whole
nation, to verge of starvation by strikes and sabotage.
10. The "right" to throw out of work and deprive of a livelihood, employees
of whole groups of industries whenever, however, and as often as they choose.
11. The "right" to precipitate inflation, panic, de. pression and
unemployment on as wide a scale as they choose.
12. The "right" to destroy the Constitution and the government and to deliver
the United States to foreign powers.
13. The "right" to engineer staggering taxation on the community at large
while they themselves are tax. free.
14. The "right" to bribe and corrupt public officials, and to buy elections.
The Labor Barons and their henchmen�gangsters, goons, ex-convicts, convicts
and intellects prostituted to them-have been extended these "rights" on the
pretense of giving "protection", in the true gangster or baronial sense, to
workers. The more moronic element believe that the unions provide the higher
wages, the employment and the standard of living that now prevail. It
requires only a very mediocre memory to reveal how false is this claim.
Labor unions rose to relatively as great power in World War I and its
aftermath, as they now enjoy. They then did not prevent depression and
unemployment, or provide for it. On the contrary, they forced wages during
the post-war era to such extortionate heights, and restricted production so
much, as to force collapse of commerce and industry and to price workers out
of their jobs. They forced an inflation so high that the unions themselves
called a buyer's strike against the purchase of the very merchandise produced
at the higher wages.
With unions equally strong in the 30's and now, the difference in the
situation accounts for higher employ. ment at this time. Industry was
prostrate in the 30's and could provide no employment. It is strong and
prosperous now, and therefore provides jobs. Strong industry provides
employment. Strong and arrogant unions weaken industry and destroy employment.
The Labor Barons deliberately collaborated with the Dynasty and precipitated
the depression of the 30's. The objective of the right wing Labor Baron is to
control or destroy; and many of them have gained control of industries in
their domains. The objective of the left wing and subversive Labor Baron is
to destroy the U.S. Government and to create an American Soviet over which he
hopes to be Commissar.
To cover up their crimes, the Labor Barons have employed prostituted
professors of economics and statisticians to throw dust in the eyes of the
public and to falsely place the blame for the depression on capital. ists and
industry. The latter have been too stupidly dis. organized to refute the
false charges levelled against them.
What is more disastrous for the nation, is the fact that these "economists"
who are prostituted to Labor Barons and most of them frankly Communists, have
de. luded the public into taking larger doses of the same quack medicine that
killed the golden goose of prosperity in the 1920's�ever higher wages for
ever less work. Their pretended purpose is "pump priming" and increasing the
purchasing power of the workers. At a time when the United States and the
world at large are crying for greater production of the necessities of life.
they are imposing a shortening of the work�week and a restriction of
production. This is clearly a part and parcel of their wrecking program of
Communization of the United States through national bankruptcy. As might be
expected, the result of their activities is a rapidly mounting inflation.
The Labor Barons and their Dynastic overlords could readily bring on another
depression now, if they are not checked. That would be fatal to human
freedom. Freedom would be lost to the Dynasty through the agency of the
"managed economy" Labor Baron clique, who use Communism as their bait.
Depression as a step to revolution and overthrow of our government is the
deliberate and avowed objective of the tactics of the labor movement,
according to an article published in a 1945 issue of Commonsense by
left-wing, Maxim Gorki Institute-trained, Victor Reuther of the UAW.
It is difficult to understand how anyone can be so stupid as to believe that
the Labor Barons and their Dynastic patrons are serving the interests of the
workers, or of the nation, by inflicting upon them the miseries and
deprivations of inflation and depression; or that they are serving them by
restricting production, by production and work rules, by featherbedding, by
conspiracy with specific employers or by numerous devices that they are free
under the law to employ with impunity. Are any Labor Barons so brazen as to
openly assert that in preventing workers from getting homes, cars,
refrigerators, and other necessities and luxuries, they are serving the
interest of the workers? Have any of them the temerity to allege that they
are protecting workers by pricing them out of jobs and forcing them into
unemployment as they are doing in the movie industry, the housing industry,
and many others, through ever increasing wage demands; or that they are
protecting workers by chain strikes that keep hosts of workers unemployed for
months on end, and wipe out their savings and impoverish them?
The record reveals the Labor Barons as the most ruthless exploiters and
betrayers of workers, who spring into action and demand a cut of wages and
profits when industry offers employment; then they expel the workers for
non-payment of dues when employment is no longer available to them.
Pretendedly in the interests of the workers, the vassals of the Labor Barons,
the Dynastic patrons extend the following so-called "rights":
1. The "right to work"�when, as, and if the Labor Baron wishes them to work.
As a corollary to the "right to work" there is claimed the "property right"
in a job. This means in principle that when an employer gives a man a job,
that man acquires a share in the business, which is tantamount to
confiscation of the employer's property. This is one phase of the idea that
has been incorporated into our law, to the effect that any man who gives
employment to another man and provides him with a living, is an enemy of
society, a criminal suspect who is guilty of any and every crime until he
proves himself innocent; and that he must be hounded, harassed and penalized
at every turn.
2. The so-called "right to strike" consists of the right to violate the
Constitutional rights of the others�the "right" to deprive the owner of the
use of his property, the "right" to restrain trade, the "right" to use force
and violence on the person and property of others, the "right" to assault,
maim and murder, the "right" to deny others the "right to work!' and earn a
living, the "right" to endanger the health,. safety, and lives of whole
communities, and numerous other wrongs and crimes that when perpetrated by or
under the direction of a Labor Baron are strangely converted, by a perversion
of our laws, into "rights".
The "right to strike" is neither used or intended primarily to benefit the
worker. So-called organizational strikes, called by almost all Labor Barons
annually under normal circustances[sic], are intended to assert the authority
of Labor Barons over their vassal workers, to force them into line and to pay
arrears in dues and special assessments including those levied for the
strikes in question. They are primarily directed against the worker; and only
secondarily against the employer and the community.
Strikes are sources of revenue for the Labor Baron. They serve to dramatize-
him and put him before the public. In normal times strikes are the Labor
Baron's chief function. The union member, or serf, loses wages during the
period of strikes and can only be the loser. But the Labor Baron has asserted
his authority and gained for himself notoriety and added income.
3. The "right to collective bargaining" which means the "right" of coercion,
blackmail, extortion and holdup of industry by the Dynastic politicians
through their agents, the Labor Barons, in the pretended interest of the
worker. These holdups of industry continue until high wages completely wipe
out profits, shut down or bankrupt industry, and destroy employment. At the
same time they force steady inflation. Ultimately they serve merely to
impoverish the worker. Wa. ter can not be drawn from a stone, nor can wages
be paid by industry that has no earnings for any length of time. These are
the objectives sought by the Dynasty in their conspiracy to effect monopoly
and dictator. ship.
The dramatic effectiveness of the sponsorship of even the most Communist and
subversive Labor Barons by the Dynasty and the Rockefeller Empire, is illus.
trated by the current developments in the New York City Transit situation.
The success of the Rockefeller interests in getting New York City to bail
them out of their transit investments through their subversive, Red agent,
Fiorella LaGuardia, and their objective of increasing fares before they
openly resume control of the companies has been related. Within one week
after the prediction had been made, the fare on the subways of New York City
had been doubled from a nickel to a dime by order of Rockefeller's
hand-picked Mayor William O'Dwyer in a farcical performance that had all the
elements of a Gilbert and Sullivan comedy, except the music.
>From the start the New York City subway systems were ruthlessly looted by its
financiers. Through dummy, exclusive purchasing agencies with a
capitalization of a few thousands they drained off many millions of dollars.
They paid themselves series of enormous dividends ranging up to 100%. They
then unloaded the highly watered securities on the public, and after the
panic of 1907, bought back the bonds for a mere fraction of their face value.
With subway unification engineereed by their agent, LaGuardia, they were
repaid full face value on their bonds, giving the Rockefeller interests alone
a profit of $150,000,000 at the expense of, the taxpayers. In the meantime
their own agents in the Transit Commission continued in control of the lines
for the purpose of mismanaging them and creating a public outcry that would
require improvement, extension and eventual reversion to private control.
A fare increase affected so many voters that politicians dared not advocate
it. The five cent fare was a political shibboleth. Most vociferous in their
opposi. tion to an increased fare were the Communists, the Red American Labor
Party and the left wing unions. To overcome their opposition, the control of
the tran. sit workers was turned over to the radical Transport Workers Union,
CIO headed by the crimson City Councilman Michael J. Quinn, its International
President. Repeated strikes were called by the union that were settled by
wage increases. In all of these strikes the union demanded wage increases
without a rise in fares and the politicians all paid homage to the five cent
fare.
Early in 1948, New York City was presented with a budget demand of more than
one billion dollars, It superimposed on the grotesque corruption and waste of
the LaGuardia regime the added figure of relatively modest Tammany graft.
Subsequent events make it apparent that the budget was deliberately padded so
as to threaten New York City with bankruptcy, as an excuse for the next fare
move that was calculated to absolve all politicians involved, of any blame
for the fare increase that was made to appear imperative. The Republicans at
Albany refused to pass a bill increasing the fare outright, but did pass one
permitting Mayor O'Dwyer and his City Council to increase the fare. Piously
and with great ostentation, O'Dwyer protested that he had no intention of
increasing the fare and passed the buck.
Very conveniently, City Councilman Michael J. Quill, of the Transport
Workers Union called another strike demanding a wage increase. Mayor O'Dwyer
played his act. He said that he forbade the strike; and that there could be
no wage increase without a fare rise. Councilman Quill took the cue and
issued an ultimatum on April 13, 1948 that his union would strike if the
fares were not increased promptly.
Thus the responsibility for the fare increase was put squarely on the
shoulders of the most troublesome of the opposition. The Rockefeller Empire
won another victory through the agency of unions and Communists sponsored by
them, and the politicians who fronted for it were left free to engage in
other skullduggery.
The advantage of using unions to set up monopolies in restraint of trade has
been demonstrated repeatedly. Thus Petrillo, the Czar of Music, suppressed
television by interdicting the use of music, stopped phonograph recordings
for months, suppressed popular music on the radio for a time, and
systematically racketeers and levies a toll of protection money on every
musical industry. The people of the nation are denied modem fireproof or
prefabricated housing, and for the major part are denied any housing within
their means, by conspiracies in restraint of trade by the building unions
that are implemented by their overlord politicians through building codes.
The nation is also denied food fresh from the farms at reasonable costs by a
conspiracy engaged in by truckmen's unions under the aegis of financial and
political overlords. It has resulted in a constantly higher price in every
populated section of the country on all foods and necessities of life. In the
case of the Rockefeller-controlled Milk Trust, their Milkmen's Union has
served as an excuse for repeatedly raising the price of milk to extortionate
heights.
The Wagner Labor Relations Act and accessory labor legislation has imposed on
the United States every phase of the destructive class warfare that Bismarck
designed for the enslavement of labor and the disrup. tion of the industry
and defense of nations that Germany would have to defeat to attain a conquest
of "Deutschland uber Alles". As in the case of every country that succumbed
to Bismarck-propagandized Marxism this subversion was accomplished by agents
subsidized by the very people who were to be victimized by it. In the United
States the sponsor of the key legislation was a kin of the very man who had
formulated the plan for Bismarck, Adolph Wagner; and the principal subsidizer
was John D. Rockefeller, a descendant of a Hessian, who aspired to outdo
Bismarck in the conquest of the world.
Through the Wagner Act there finally has been brought about in the United
States the beginnings of a true feudal state masked by the trappings of
democracy. The blueprint of Nickerson has been outdone. Both labor and the
bulk of the rank and file of the populace have been reduced to serfdom by
Labor Barons and their Dynastic masters. This serfdom is ironically labelled
"Labor's Gains".
When all is said and done, the greatest boon that the Dynasty offered the
American people through Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the opportunity to shed
their blood and dissipate their wealth for its private purposes and for
world-wide extension of the Rockefeller Empire and its oil reserves.
pps.236-260
--[cont]--
Aloha, He'Ping,
Om, Shalom, Salaam.
Em Hotep, Peace Be,
Omnia Bona Bonis,
All My Relations.
Adieu, Adios, Aloha.
Amen.
Roads End
Kris
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