Excerpt from The Tyranny of Trade Unions This may seem a strong statement of the position. It is not an over-strong statement. We are actually threatened with the ruin of the civilisation that has taken so many centuries of thought and effort to build up. The crisis demands clear thinking, courageous thinking. Masks and pretences must be stripped away and naked facts faced. We must get out of the atmosphere of vote-seeking which to-day more than all else obscures the minds of national leaders. We must get out of that mood of easy optimism which trusts to the country to muddle through somehow. We must squarely ask the British workers (who are, when in their true and right mind, the best industrial army the world has ever produced) to consider their present position and their present leadership in the light of their common sense and their patriotism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.