The Right to Work Without Coercion
Unquestionably the right to choose to work for a stated sum implies the right to refuse to work; and the right to employ men carries with it the right to discharge men, the moral obligation being the same in each action. And after all, reader, is it not true that a man is just as much a man; is just as true a man, if he does not belong to an organization as if he does? It is a matter of personal decision, isn’t it? and should one be coerced for disagreeing with his fellows? Honest, now? Mr. Frederick Harrison, the noted Englishman, says in an article in the Nineteenth Century that “if the ‘artists of the future can be restrained within the ‘limits of good sense and fine taste, Washington ‘[D. C.] may look more like Rome of the Antonines ‘than any city of the Old World.” Involuntarily men are continually comparing America with Rome, and unmistakably the drift of American Government is Romeward.