Part 17 (1/2)

Look at what has happened to America since our _federal_ government was converted into a centralized absolutism. The central government in Was.h.i.+ngton arrogated to itself the unconst.i.tutional power and responsibility of regulating the relations.h.i.+ps between private employers and their employees, enacting laws which established ”collective bargaining” as ”national policy,” and which, to that end, gave international unions a virtual monopoly over large segments of the labor market.

It follows that a minor labor dispute between two unions on the waterfront of New York is no longer a concern only of the people and police in that neighborhood. A handful of union members who have no grievance whatever against their employers but who are in a jurisdictional struggle with another union, can shut down the greatest railroad systems in the world, throw thousands out of work, and paralyze vital transportation for business firms and millions of citizens all over the nation.

Harry Bridges on the West Coast can order a political demonstration having nothing to do with ”labor” matters, and paralyze the economy of half the nation.

Imagine what it will be like if we join a world government. Then a dock strike in London will cripple, not just the British Isles but the whole world.

Now, the central government in Was.h.i.+ngton sends troops into local communities to enforce, at bayonet point, the illegal edicts of a Was.h.i.+ngton judicial oligarchy concerning the operation of local schools.

If we join world government, the edict and the troops will come (depending on what nations are in the international union, of course) from India and j.a.pan and the Congo.

There was a time when Americans, learning of suffering and want in a distant land, could respond to their Christian promptings and native kindliness by making voluntary contributions for relief to their fellow human beings abroad. Our central government's foreign aid programs have already taken much of that freedom away from American citizens--taxing them so heavily for what government wants to give away, that private citizens can't spend their own money the way they would like to.

What will it be like if we join a world government that embraces the real have-not nations of the earth? The impoverished subcontinent of India, because of population, would have more representatives in the international parliament than we would have. They, with the support of representatives from Latin America and Africa, could easily vote to lay a tax on ”surplus” incomes for the benefit of all illiterate and hungry people everywhere; and outvoted Americans would be the only people in the world with incomes high enough to meet the international definition of ”surplus.”

We read with horror of Soviet slaughter in Hungary when the Soviets suppress a local rebellion against their partial world-government. What kind of horror would we feel after we join a world government and see troops from Europe and Africa and the Middle East machinegunning people on the streets of United States cities in order to suppress a rebellion of young Americans who somehow heard about the magnificent const.i.tutional system and glorious freedom their fathers used to have and who are trying to make a public demonstration of protest against the international tyranny being imposed upon them?

A genuine world government might eliminate the armed conflict (between nations) which we now call war; but it would cause an endless series of b.l.o.o.d.y uprisings and b.l.o.o.d.y suppressions, and would cause more human misery than total war itself.

In 1936, the Communist International formally presented its three-stage plan for achieving world government--_Stage 1:_ socialize the economies of all nations, particularly the Western ”capitalistic democracies”

(most particularly, the United States); _Stage 2:_ bring about federal unions of various groupings of these socialized nations; _Stage 3:_ amalgamate all of the federal unions into one world-wide union of socialist states. The following pa.s.sage is from the official program of the 1936 Communist International:

”...dictators.h.i.+p can be established only by a victory of socialism in different countries or groups of countries, after which the proletariat republics would unite on federal lines with those already in existence, and this system of federal unions would expand ... at length forming the World Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.”

In 1939 (three years after this communist program was outlined) Clarence K. Streit (a Rhodes scholar who was foreign correspondent for _The New York Times_, covering League of Nations activities from 1929-1939) wrote _Union Now_, a book advocating a gradual approach through regional unions to final world union--an approach identical with that of the communists, except that Streit did not say his scheme was intended to achieve world dictators.h.i.+p, and did not characterize the end result of his scheme as a ”World Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.”

In 1940, Clarence K. Streit (together with Percival F. Brundage, later a Director of the Budget for Eisenhower; and Melvin Ryder, publisher of the _Army Times_) formed Federal Union, Inc., to work for the goals outlined in Streit's book, _Union Now_, published the year before.

In 1941, Streit published another book: _Union Now With Britain_. He claims that the union he advocated would be a step toward ”formation of free world government.” But the arguments of his book make it very clear that in joining a union with other nations, the United States would not bring to the union old American const.i.tutional concepts of free-enterprise and individual freedom under limited government, but would rather amalgamate with the socialistic-communistic systems that exist in the other nations which became members of the union.

The following pa.s.sages are from page 192 of Streit's _Union Now With Britain_:

”Democrats cannot ... quarrel with Soviet Russia or any other nation because of its economic collectivism, for democracy itself introduced the idea of collective machinery into politics. It is a profound mistake to identify democracy and Union necessarily or entirely with either capitalist or socialist society, with either the method of individual or collective enterprise. There is room for both of these methods in democracy....

”Democracy not only allows mankind to choose freely between capitalism and collectivism, but it includes marxist governments, parties and press....”

When the year 1941 ended, America was in World War II; and all American advocates of world-peace-through-world-law-and-world-government jubilantly struck while the iron was hot--using the hysteria and confusion of the early days of our involvement in the great catastrophe as a means of pus.h.i.+ng us into one or another of the schemes for union with other nations.

Clarence Streit states it this way, in his most recent book (_Freedom's Frontier Atlantic Union Now_, 1961):

”j.a.pan Pearl Harbored us into the war we had sought to avoid by disunion.... Now, we Americans had the white heat of war to help leaders form the nuclear Atlantic Union.”

On January 5, 1942 (when we had been at war less than a month), Clarence Streit's Federal Union, Inc., bought advertising s.p.a.ce in major newspapers for a pet.i.tion urging Congress to adopt a joint resolution favoring immediate union of the United States with several specified foreign nations. Such people as Harold L. Ickes (Roosevelt cabinet officer), Owen J. Roberts (Supreme Court Justice), and John Foster Dulles (later Eisenhower's Secretary of State) signed this newspaper ad pet.i.tioning Congress to drag America into world government. In fact, these notables (especially John Foster Dulles) had actually written the Joint Resolution which Federal Union wanted Congress to adopt.

The world government resolution (urged upon Congress in January, 1942) provided among other things that in the federal union of nations to be formed, the ”union” government would have the right: (1) to impose a common citizens.h.i.+p; (2) to tax citizens directly; (3) to make and enforce all laws; (4) to coin and borrow money; (5) to have a monopoly on all armed forces; and (6) to _admit new members_.