ABSTRACT
The labor movement in the United States is not anti-business or anti-big business. The American system of enterprise, based on economic rewards for creativity, for innovation, for efficiency, has generally served this nation well. Working in concert with an equally creative, innovative and efficient labor force, we have achieved a standard of living here, for workers that have never been matched. The freedom for labor to strike for higher wages is as much a part of the free enterprise system as is the freedom for business to close an economically inefficient plant. Within the generally sound structure of free enterprise and free trade, there are some inordinately stupid things going on. They are so stupid; they threaten most of the things that Americans, and American businessmen, really want. These include: a healthy domestic American economy, a climate of freedom around the world and the continuation of the free market ethic.
