From his 1955 "Mission Statement" for the National Review:
The competitive price system is indispensable to liberty and material progress. It is threatened not only by the growth of Big Brother government, but by the pressure of monopolies (including union monopolies). What is more, some labor unions have clearly identified themselves with doctrinaire socialist objectives. The characteristic problems of harassed business have gone unreported for years, with the result that the public has been taught to assume (almost instinctively) that conflicts between labor and management are generally traceable to greed and intransigence on the part of management. Sometimes they are; often they are not. NATIONAL REVIEW will explore and oppose the inroads upon the market economy caused by monopolies in general, and politically oriented unionism in particular; and it will tell the violated businessman's side of the story.
R.I.P.
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Wait, I thought back then the unions were OK because those were the days when George Meany wouldn't support McGoverniks and they're bad now because the New Leftists like Andy Stern are running things. You mean to tell me that business and conservatives have always hated it when workers had a strong countervailing force in the form of unions? Buckley hated Reuther and Humphrey, too? Shazam! Then what was the point of wading through that O'Keefe piece?
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