RIGHTS OF BUSINESSMEN DEFENDED BY RANDALL

"Big business is accused of considering only property rights and not human rights, but property rights are human rights--to work without the right to protect is slavery," said Clarence A. Randall '12 in the third Godkin lecture on "Civil Liberties and Industrial Conflict."

"Most executives believe that they must repel strikes by force, if necessary, but what sort of force should be used is a puzzling question. Human life must never be taken to preserve property."

"Mobs Destroy Order"

Mr. Randall emphasized the extent to which law and order break down under strike conditions and said that there should be no need for armed forces in plants. "Mobs don't defy order; they destroy it. The responsibility rests on an alert public which can insist upon an orderly government," he said.

"The phenomenon of 1937 was mass transportation of factional adherents. No sober citizen thinks that this mob madness is collective bargaining, and unless public opinion recognizes this," he said in conclusion. "we shall face the break-down of our whole industrial fabric."