The New Deal And Its Many
Surviving Big
Government Acts
This Act a.k.a. Wagner Act is
one of many appalling acts still in effect since the horrible New Deal.
Taken Straight From The Socialist Playbook
Just reading the language of Section 1 of this Act
abundantly reveals that its sponsors were guided by socialist theories of the
time [Emphasis added]:
·
“The denial by some employers of the right of
employees to organize and the refusal by
some employers to accept the procedure of collective bargaining lead to
strikes and other forms of industrial strife or unrest, which have the intent
or the necessary effect of burdening or obstructing commerce …”
·
“The inequality
of bargaining power between employees who do not possess full freedom of
association or actual liberty of
contract and employers who are
organized in the corporate or other forms of ownership association substantially burdens and affects the
flow of commerce, and tends to aggravate
recurrent business depressions, by depressing wage rates and the purchasing
power of wage earners in industry and by preventing the stabilization of
competitive wage rates and working conditions within and between industries.”
·
“Experience
has proved that protection by law of the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively safeguards
commerce from injury, impairment, or interruption, and promotes the flow of
commerce by removing certain recognized sources of industrial strife and
unrest, by encouraging practices
fundamental to the friendly adjustment of industrial disputes arising out
of differences as to wages, hours, or other working conditions, and by restoring equality of bargaining power
between employers and employees.”
·
“Experience
has further demonstrated that certain practices by some labor
organizations, their officers, and members have the intent or the necessary
effect of burdening or obstructing commerce by preventing the free flow of
goods in such commerce through strikes
and other forms of industrial unrest or through concerted activities which
impair the interest of the public in the free flow of such commerce. The
elimination of such practices is a necessary condition to the assurance of the
rights herein guaranteed”
·
“It is
declared to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the causes of
certain substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce and to mitigate
and eliminate these obstructions when they have occurred by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining …”
This Section I one of the Act
is littered with strong and wrong presumptions. The Act is also a major
infringement of private property rights by mandating employers to comply with “collective
bargaining”. The leniency of this Act on criminal activities or extortion as
the Act euphemistically says “certain practices by some labor organizations …”
As they say sometimes the
prescribed medicine is worse than the disease. This Act fully qualfies as an
example imposing “collective bargaining” as a remedy at the expense of
employers.
Were lawmakers inspired by the
erroneous concept of countervailing power (although prominently published only
in 1952) or by monopolistic/oligopolistic or state monopoly capitalism?
There are fundamental
differences between enterprises in a free market and legally protected and
preferentially treated labor unions:
·
Labor unions are not as exposed to competition
as individual enterprises
·
Employees are free to choose to work elsewhere
or establish their own enterprise
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