one cannot appreciate the extent of the threat it poses.
Accordingly, the first part of this book is largely the
story of the political progress of labor unions in their
influence over legislative, executive, and judicial of-
ficials. It is not a dull story of legislative drafting, law
administration, and law interpretation, but a stimu-
lating narrative of the behind-the-scenes political ef-
forts which resulted in laws being written by favoring
legislators, administered by favoring officials, and
finally interpreted by favoring judges. The second
part of the book shows how the fully developed labor
monopolies operate today--as powers engaged in a
legalized civil war endangering the basic structure of
American economy and government. The danger is
real, but not without remedy. The final chapters sug-
gest what steps we can take to meet this "clear and
present danger."

It was the fortune of the present author to render
services for many years to many labor organizations,
particularly from 1920 to 1933. During those years
the foundations were laid, in law and in the coinci-
dent development of big business and big labor or-
ganizations, for the enormous growth of labor in
numbers and power that began in the first adminis-
tration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. After a service of

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