Communists roused 3000 odd unemployed men to march on the Rouge works in Detroit, where several man were gunned down and others wounded. <\/p>\n
This was the culmination of a concerted effort by union organizers to gain public sympathy- and the co-operation of Ford workers. <\/p>\n
This is going to be long, so you might want to get a coffee and pee before reading below the fold. I’ll try to be as brief and as coherent as possible.
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Ford workers at the time- and i know because I’m descended of them- lived under some pretty opressive conditions. The work was hard, the hours long, the conditions dangerous. And these were the best jobs to be had anywhere, at the time. People FOUGHT <\/em>to get to work 12 hour days in factories that were boiling hot in summer and freezing cold in winter, on machinery that was intrinsically unsafe to operate. And they were- as my grandfather said- tickled to get those jobs, because they paid better than anything else, just about anywhere. <\/p>\n They had a right, however, to better conditions. And they needed a way to get them. And the only way that existed a the time was the unions.<\/p>\n I’ve had this discussion in the past with M alger, and dropped it because I had no desire to be contentious, especially not with someone I like and respect as much as Mark. <\/p>\n Bottomline was, and is, I’m correct, and I gave up the discussion at the time because of my lack of ability to articulate what I was talking about in an understandable manner. <\/p>\n Now, I think I’m ready. <\/p>\n Kim du Toit speaks of Elephants<\/a> Stumbling<\/a>, and I completely understand and concur- I hope I can be as eloquent in my description of my concept as he is of his. <\/p>\n See, as I discussed with Mark Alger, this was a time when industry had been in the habit of running roughshod over it’s employees, and there was zero reason to stop, because it was the depression, and if anyone complained, they got their asses fired, and they had their pick of thousands of people waiting outside to get the recently vacated job. <\/p>\n Mark maintained that the market would solve this problem. And he’s correct, the market would eventually have solved it, but would have done so on the backs of millions of Americans. IN that era, people starved to death. A lot of people. <\/p>\n The right looks at the “solutions” of the unions, of the communists, of the statists, of the socialists, and sneer. And rightfully so- because those “solutions” are- like unions- worse than the problems they solve, by orders of magnitude. It is unquestionable that the introduction of socialist trade unions have been the downfall of many of our best industries, and the cancerous spread of their influence has been worse than disastrous.<\/p>\n The problem is, while the left in general provides dangerous, stupid, self destructive and horrible solutions to problems, the right provides nothing whatsoever. The conventional conservative wisdom is that the market will solve about anything you can throw at it. And it will. But it doesn’t do a goddamned thing for the guy who lost both his hands feeding sheet metal to a press, and now cannot work and has zero protection and no barrier between himself and his family, and starvation. Will the market eventually figure this out? Sure. Will the average joe- whether he believes it to be correct or not- wait for that resolution? Fuck no!!!<\/p>\n SO here is Og’s third law. I think I’ve covered enough of the basics to make this understandable:
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\nWhen the left offers bad short term solutions and the right offers no short term solutions to a given problem, the right deliberately abandons the reins of power to the left. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n