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Subject: Unions and Such...
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Date: Mon, 21-May-84 08:24:19 EDT
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Re: Enforced Socialism?!?!?!?__________________________________________________

	[Let's change the title to this; it has nothing to do with the con-
tents!]

> All well and good - but why is this bad when a corporation does it, and good
> when a union does it?

	It's not.  Who said it was?

> The difference is that the corporation doesn't send the police around to
> arrest you if you try to buy outside their monopoly; nor do they threaten
> the life & limb of their competition.

	I agree with your point that coercion is the enemy, not necessarily the
corporations or the unions.  But if you don't believe that corporations can and
have used police and/or threat to life or limb, then you don't have all the
facts yet.
		<_Jym_>
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