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To leave the executive sole master of the field is to invite the kind of purblind folly which resulted, in 1919, in the police strikes of Boston and London.
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Harold J. Laski
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This quote illustrates Laski's concern about the dangers of unchecked executive power in labor relations.
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I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.
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