Posted on 04/27/2014 5:19:36 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Thanks for always posting these. They are quite the history lesson. Amazing how it reflects the ongoing tyranny in our country and we have never really been free.
Yeah ya like that? The government sends the military to interfere with a contract.
God I hate communists, every stinking one of them.
“Monty Ward seized...”
I am wondering how critical Montgomery Ward mail order and retail stores were to the war effort? (sarcasm)
Would a lock out of MW labor by MW management have delayed D-Day or the Manhattan Project?
Reading as much of the story as I could, looks like the CEO and directors may not have been greasing the right palms...and OMG...actually took a stand for property rights.
That had to be stopped. No doubt about it.
Nope! Good ol’ government tyranny against its people.
Unbelieveable. And all under the guise of the country being in a war. We are still at war, so there’s nothing to stop this administration from doing something just as crazy, like the Bundy Ranch.
Pretty frightening the blueprint this administration already has to work with. Just imagine the NYT dragging up this article and others during the Civil War to justify the continued tyranny in this country.
The US government seized dozens if not hundreds of US companies during WWII.
Many people are convinced that it can not happen in America, I was only about 6 or seven years old when this took place.
I always wondered why my mother hated as she put it the Sob,
Yes, most American soldiers will do what they are told.
And Roosevelt was pro communist and backed the union mobsters just like Obama does, it is nothing new.
“The US government seized dozens if not hundreds of US companies during WWII.”
jjotto.
Knew this type of thing happened. This NYT article made me curious on the stats of the time. Do you have any further examples or links or book titles to aid me?
My typical google tactics seem to come up zip to the point I am wondering if this NLRB era in our history is being “censored for our own protection”.
thx
I think looking at this headline from today's perspective makes it ridiculous, but think about the situation in the early 1940s.
First off, there was gasoline rationing, and a far greater percentage of the population lived in rural areas, where there were simply no other ways to get anything other than the basic staples at the local "general store." Much of these mail order products were actually sold through these general stores, who placed the orders for their customers.
I'm not defending Roosevelt's decision. The way he ordered such things as the gold confiscation, wage and price controls, and the detention of millions of Americans of Japanese descent should have placed him on the "most repressive government leaders" that we've ever had, but then it seems that the left LOVES oppressive, murderous leaders and regimes, from "Che," to Mao, to Stalin, to Obama.
I'm just saying that a stoppage of a major mail order retailer in the early 1940s like Sears & Roebuck or Monkey Wards (had to get that in, I used to work at a KC store as a teenager into my early 20s) would be a huge hit to morale at home.
Mark
“Industrialists in Olive Drab: The Emergency Operation of Private Industries” by John H. Ohly
http://www.amazon.com/History-plant-seizures-during-World/dp/B0007FB2T6
http://www.answers.com/topic/wartime-seizure-power
Note that Democratic party St. La Guardia refused accommodation to the “Japanese-Americans” and worse, entire neighborhoods signed petitions to keep them out.
Funny how modern Democratic party triumphalists conveniently forget that fact.
I never heard of this event. Read the article. Scary stuff. The CEO refused to extend a labor agreement that the President directed be extended, so they took over the company HQ as union thugs cheered. Sounds like a playbook for Obama.
It’s not unusual for articles about labor issues to leave me wondering which side the unions are on. They certainly don’t seem to be very interested in our winning the war.
Sewell Avery’s comments after the seizure of his office by Roosevelt:
“... the government has been coercing both employers and employees to accept a brand of unionism which in all too many cases is engineered by people who are not employees of the plant...these devices...only appear to make workers free to choose,... are a disguise for leading the nation into a government of dictators.”
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Don’t forget, unions were against involvement in the war when Stalin and Hitler were allied, to the point of sabotaging war production. Midwestern industry and agriculture had a heavy population of German descent and were skeptical of the degree of evil the Germans were engaged in.
A lot of business owners then were isolationist Republicans, so FDR had reason to distrust them too.
Things really were different then.
That's a point I hadn't considered.
Nothing new under the sun.
Opening the door to French reoccupation of Indochina. We all know how that worked out.
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