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En Garde, whole no. 8, December 1943
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page 6 Union was doing was trying to make more work for the painters by reducing production per man--- an artificial ans uneconomic method, but one appealing to the unintelligent rank and file of the Union. The sole justification of a Union is to provide a Spokesman to deal with a management often unreachable by the lowly worker, and to intelligently demand wages and working conditions the worker has every human right to expect, but is not equiped to demand for himself. In those cases where the Union can fill this need, we approve. However, the situation is ready made for racketeering, and the Union leaders have been quick to take advantage. Exploitation of such a great mob of second rate intelligences is too, too easy. Great fanfare about a few cents an hour raise, shorter hours, or the right to smoke on the job, blind the worker to the cost to him through striker loss, dues and assessments, and initiation fees, to say nothing of the fact that whenever his demands raise the cost to the manufacturer it is passed right back to him in increased cost of the product. Of course most of this is the same old arguments. Doubtless the Unions have done a small amount of good despite the way they've been run. If the time should come when their activities were strictly controled to an extent that would abolish most of the exploitation of the worker, we might give them some approval. Personally, we fell quite able to act as our own spokesman with any management, and if we can't come to an agreement with them, we'll simply go somewhere where we can agree. It would be better for all workers if they developed their individuality and intelligence to the point where they willing to do the same instead of becoming a bunch of sheep. T´hell with the Unions. We just don't approve of Hitler's type of government. When this war is over let's start making war on the Unions and Politicians and other parasites and exploiters of the common people. Let's restore Democracy and man's right and ability to have a voice in his government. Art, I tried working out one of your personality amoebas. You seem to have veered slightly from Speer's original concept of the thing, and I'm not sure mine follows yours exactly. But there goes. I visualize the thing as a perfect circle distorted by the pressure of various inner motivations that make up your personality. Between these pseudopodic protrusions are the indentations caused by the pressure of the different physical urges. Desire for Approval I've changed to Vanity, and I've restored perverseness. It seems to me to be a definite urge in some people, having no connection with the power of the others. I've also seen fit to add Gregariousness & Justice (desire for fair-play) I worked this out with the aid of Wiedenbeck who has known me a long time, [schema on the left] Perversness/Vanity/Lust/hunger/Self Preservation/Laziness Moral Fibre/Gregariousness/Curiosity/Altruism/Justice/Idealism
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page 6 Union was doing was trying to make more work for the painters by reducing production per man--- an artificial ans uneconomic method, but one appealing to the unintelligent rank and file of the Union. The sole justification of a Union is to provide a Spokesman to deal with a management often unreachable by the lowly worker, and to intelligently demand wages and working conditions the worker has every human right to expect, but is not equiped to demand for himself. In those cases where the Union can fill this need, we approve. However, the situation is ready made for racketeering, and the Union leaders have been quick to take advantage. Exploitation of such a great mob of second rate intelligences is too, too easy. Great fanfare about a few cents an hour raise, shorter hours, or the right to smoke on the job, blind the worker to the cost to him through striker loss, dues and assessments, and initiation fees, to say nothing of the fact that whenever his demands raise the cost to the manufacturer it is passed right back to him in increased cost of the product. Of course most of this is the same old arguments. Doubtless the Unions have done a small amount of good despite the way they've been run. If the time should come when their activities were strictly controled to an extent that would abolish most of the exploitation of the worker, we might give them some approval. Personally, we fell quite able to act as our own spokesman with any management, and if we can't come to an agreement with them, we'll simply go somewhere where we can agree. It would be better for all workers if they developed their individuality and intelligence to the point where they willing to do the same instead of becoming a bunch of sheep. T´hell with the Unions. We just don't approve of Hitler's type of government. When this war is over let's start making war on the Unions and Politicians and other parasites and exploiters of the common people. Let's restore Democracy and man's right and ability to have a voice in his government. Art, I tried working out one of your personality amoebas. You seem to have veered slightly from Speer's original concept of the thing, and I'm not sure mine follows yours exactly. But there goes. I visualize the thing as a perfect circle distorted by the pressure of various inner motivations that make up your personality. Between these pseudopodic protrusions are the indentations caused by the pressure of the different physical urges. Desire for Approval I've changed to Vanity, and I've restored perverseness. It seems to me to be a definite urge in some people, having no connection with the power of the others. I've also seen fit to add Gregariousness & Justice (desire for fair-play) I worked this out with the aid of Wiedenbeck who has known me a long time, [schema on the left] Perversness/Vanity/Lust/hunger/Self Preservation/Laziness Moral Fibre/Gregariousness/Curiosity/Altruism/Justice/Idealism
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