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On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 08:49:47 -0500, Alan wrote:

>On 11 Jun 2004 21:29:16 -0500, Wm James
> wrote:
>
>>On 11 Jun 2004 09:51:46 -0400, (G*rd*n) wrote:
>>
>>>> ...
>>>
:
>>>> Are you saying that youcan't get a better price for your labor on the
>>>> open market, and that you need a thug organization to keep your price
>>>> artificially high?
>>>
>>>
>>>A truly open market is open to the possibility of cabals --
>>>contracts between suppliers to limit or regulate the supply,
>>>and thus regulate the price. In itself, there is nothing
>>>thuggish about such an arrangement. In some cases the
>>>overall price may actually be lowered by such an
>>>arrangement. Anecdote on request.
>>
>>Of course it is. So? Are you and your neighbors not free to choose
>>not to shop at the local market for bread until they lower the price?
>>Why should it be any different for people buying anything else,
>>including labor?
>>
>>William R. James
>
>They wouldn't lower the price......

Then they wouldn't sell anything, unless you didn't have popular
support, would they?

William R. James