CZECHOSLOVAKIA LIVES

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• Publication Date: September 11, 1968
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Create simplified and streamlined enforce-
ment procedures to require quick correction
of hazardous conditions.
The cost of this measure will be small. Its
benefits will be large, not only in terms of
the lives it can save and the injuries it can
prevent, but in practical terms of dollars and
cents. Last year alone, over 1.8 million man-
days were lost to the nation and the mine
owners as, a result of job-related deaths and
injuries. Many millions of dollars in work-
men's compensation payments were awarded
to injured and disabled miners.
The recommendations I make today result
from a recently concluded thorough review
of the weaknesses of existing coal mine safety
legislation. That review was undertaken by
the Secretary of the Interior in consultation
with the Secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare and other interested agencies of the
Government. -
I realize that it is late in the session. But
the health and safety of America's 144,000
coal miners deserve immediate attention.
This proposal complements the compre-
hensive Occupational Safety and Health
Act-designed to protect 75 million American
workers in other occupations-which I sub-
mitted last January. The need to safeguard
men on the job, to spare them and their
families the agony of injury and the ravages
of illness, whether they labor in the depths
of a mine or on a factory workbench, is
urgent. I call upon the Congress to enact
these important worker protection measures
into law before adjournment.
Sincerely,
will also come to naught. Thomas
Masaryk conceived a noble dream, living
to see its implementation and creation
of a viable national state. Standing the
test of time and challenge, its vitality
has been made all the more vibrant by
the commitment, traditions and charac-
ter of the Czech people.
Who can ever forget their resistance
to Hitler? It was not they who sold out
or gave up on their country in 1938 at
Munich. It was not they who feared to
raise their fists against the Nazi hordes.
Rather it was we in the West who stood
silently by, acquiescing in their national
dismemberment and deprivation of lib-
erty. It is to our everlasting shame and
disgrace that the West allowed Masaryk's
Czechoslovakia to be done to an untimely
but temporary death.
History records the indelible stain of
nazism's record there, remembering such
names as Lidice. It recalls those thou-
sands upon thousands of Czechs who
gave their lives for ideals, land and free-
dom.
A sublime moment came at the end
of the last world war when the light of
Czech liberty warmed central Europe.
But for only the briefest time.
In 1948, another horrid chapter was
written in blood-spattered letters in
man's history. Czechoslovakia was again
numbered among those national states
no longer free to pursue their chosen
course. Another Masaryk appeared in the
news, as he was removed in some horrible
manner by the Soviets and their crea-
tures. He died as his father had lived-
to serve his nation and its ideals. Nor has
his name been forgotten.
Czechoslovakia groaned again under
the steely grip of a brutal tyranny that
brooked no disagreement, criticism or
open expression. For those who dared,
there was the peace and freedom of a
prison cell or grave. Czech earth enclosed
many who shared Masaryk's dream.
And the name Czechoslovakia came to
stand for weapons from Skoda and heavy
equipment for Soviet projects overseas.
Czechoslovakia was milked for the sake
of Soviet expansionist ambitions. But
Masaryk's spirit lived and glowed in the
breasts of all Czechs.
Suddenly it burst out in full power once
again, shining with a blinding light that
frightened men in the Kremlin. How ili-
structive this is. A few million freedom-
worshipping people striving to read, write
and speak as they chose, scaring the
Soviet Union out of its collective wits.
As the Soviets massed their armies, an
entire world thrilled to see the spirit of
Masaryk stand forth and cry out to all
who would hear:
I am not dead! I live! I breathe I I yearn to
speak out! And I shall not be silent any
longer!
We know now how a panicked Soviet
leadership reacted. We saw their mailed
fist strike with a bludgeon's power across
a frontier to plunge an unsuspecting peo-
ple back into the mists of Russian en-
slavement and domination.
We saw divisions of Soviet soldiers,
with their satellite lackeys yapping along
behind them, pour into Prague. How dev-
astating to see East German troops
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helping to enslave Czechs for the sake
of Soviet security and peace of mind.
Now the Kremlin rules in Prague. But
for how long? How many Czech hearts
are in sympathy with them? How many
Czech breasts glow with hatred of the
oppressor and a patriots' desire to be
free?
Mr. President, I am as certain of Czech-
oslovakia's eventual emergence into
the morning of liberty as I am of tomor-
row's sunrise.
Let those who observe in sorrow, woe,
and frustration lift up their eyes and
hearts. A million Russian tanks and 10
million Russian troopers cannot snuff out
one iota of Czech freedom.
This is a freedom which lives in their
hearts. A million Russian tanks and 10
cannot enter.
Masaryk's spirit lives, awaiting to be
reborn again and yet again. We shall live
to see it triumphant, shouted from the
spires of Prague to all the world.
Let their secret police blow harder
upon that flame of human dignity. They
will not extinguish it. Never.
FREE ENTERPRISE
Mr. ERVIN. Mr. President, on June 24,
1968, I spoke to the Tobacco Association
of the United States and the Leaf To-
bacco Exporters Association at White
Sulphur Springs, W. Va., upon the sub-
ject of free enterprise. I ask unanimous
consent that the text of my remarks on
that occasion be printed in the RECORD.
There being no objection, the remarks
were ordered to be printed in the RECORD
as follows:
FREE ENTERPRISE
I wish to talk to you about free enterprise,
which the dictionary defines as "an economic
and political doctrine holding that a capital-
ist economy-can regulate itself in a freely
competitive market through the relationship
of supply and demand with a minimum of
governmental intervention and regulation."
Although this definition is accurate, I as-
sign to free enterprise a simpler one. I pre-
fer to call it economic freedom. I do this
simply because it is a constituent part of
freedom itself.
To value freedom aright, we must be
mindful of what it cost. One of its foremost
champions,. Rudyard Kipling, had this to
say about the cost of freedom in his stirring
poem entitled "The Old Issue":
"All we have of freedom, all we use or know-
This our fathers bought for us long and
long ago.
Ancient Right unnoticed as the breath we
draw-
Leave to live by no man's leave, underneath
the law.
Lance and torch and tumult, steel and grey-
goose wing,
Wrenched it, inch and ell and all, slowly
from the King.
Till our fathers 'stablished, after bloody
years,
How our King is one with us, first among
his peers.
So they bought us freedom-not at little
cost-
Wherefore must we watch the King, lest our
gain to lost."
Economic freedom constitutes a precious
part of the heritage we received in trust
for ourselves and our children and our chil-
dren's children from all those men and
CZECHOSLOVAKIA LIVES
Mr. MONTOYA. Mr. President, com-
passionate human beings everywhere re-
coiled in utter revulsion as events in
Czechoslovakia ground their course in
recent weeks.
Once again the boots of an alien con-
queror strode down Prague boulevards.
Yet again the rumble of armored divi-
sions was heard on the beautiful squares
of that shining and historic city, the
jewel of Central Europe. Once more its
people; enlightened, skilled and proud,
are crunched under the heel of an in-
vader.
Of all people to have this happen to
again-the Czechs. I am filled with
sorrow for their plight, anger at their
tormentors and frustration at our seem-
ing helplessness. "
It was correct for our President to
condemn this Soviet aggression. It was
right for this administration to demand
in the United Nations that the sovereign
rights of Czechoslovakia be respected un-
der the charter of that organization.
The President's consultation of the
National Security Council and our reas-
sessment of cultural agreements between
this Nation and the Soviet Union and
its involved satellites are necesary and
correct. They are some indication of how
deeply disturbed we are over the-viola-
tion of human rights, trampling.of in-
ternational agreements and callous dis-
regard for desire of a freedom-demand-
ing people to live as they please.
Mr. President, the dream of Masaryk
lives. The Czech people live. No pon-
derous, heavyhanded invader can ever
suppress the spirit of Czech liberty. Of
this there can be no- doubt. The Haps-
burgs attempted to. They failed. Hitler
tried. He failed. Stalin did his gory best.
He failed. And this monstrous attempt
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women, great and small, whose blood, sweat,
tears, and prayers made the America we
know and love a living reality.
These men and women did not learn eco-
nomics sitting at the feet of those who
promise "abundance for all by robbing Se-
lected Peter to pay Collective Paul."
They acquired their knowledge in the hard
school of experience, which is the most de-
pendable of teachers. As a consequence, they
had the hardihood to accept the economic
truths plainly visible to all human beings
who possess both the capacity and the will-
ingness to face reality.
They knew that earth yields nothing to
man except the products of his own labor.
They knew that Adam's curse is an un-
changing and unchangeable law of life: "In
the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,
till thou return unto the ground."
They knew that man has but one choice
in respect to this immutable economic fact.
and that such choice Is simply this: Whether
the bread which he must eat In the sweat
of his face shall be the bread of freedom
or the bread of bondage.
They knew this unalterable decree of the
creator of the universe: Free men cannot
be induced to produce things of value un-
less they are permitted to retain a fair share
of the fruits of their labor for themselves,
their families, and the causes they hold dear.
They knew, moreover, that man can be
free only if he is willing to accept responsi-
bility for his own life.
As the consequence of these things, the
valiant folk who made America realized not
only that economic freedom is an absolutely
necessary attribute of a free society, but also
that it most effectively encourages men and
women to be self-reliant and to produce
goods and services in an abundance sufficient
to enable such a society to enjoy the highest
standards of living.
To these ends, they established the free
enterprise system as the way of life In our
land, and wrote Into State and Federal con-
stitutions rights to liberty and property to
give the system the power to operate with
success.
These constitutions secure to each Amer-
lean these rights: To travel when and where
he pleases; to use his God-given faculties;
to seek useful knowledge; to acquire, possess.
use and dispose of property; to earn his live-
lihood by any lawful calling; to manufacture
commodities or provide services; to buy and
sell goods; to save and invest his earnings
in any lawful undertaking; to enter Into
contracts for carrying out these activities
with profit; and to do the other things es-
sential to the orderly pursuit of happiness.
Let us examine the philosophic base of
our free enterprise system.
A rather waggish, but somewhat truthful.
commentator suggests that free enterprise
rests on the desire of Americans to be men
rather than mendicants. He says: "If you
want Uncle Sam to take care of you, that's
Socialism; but if you want to take care of
yourself, that's free enterprise."
The American free enterprise system Is
founded on these basic beliefs..
1. The needs of our people'srk best met -free by free men freely competing in a anar-
ket.
2. The worth of our country depends on
the worth of the Individuals residing in It.
Consequently, each individual owes to our
country as well as to himself and his family
the duty to develop and use his faculties and
his talents.
3. There are prerequisites to the perform-
ance of this duty. Since freedom means re-
sponsibility, the individual must accept re-
sponsibility for his own life; and since man
Is not born to be idle and work is indispensa-
ble to the growth of his spirit, he must have
a worthwhile task to dignify his days. it he
Is to develop his abilities and use them with
diligence in the performance of his task, he
must receive a profitable return for his ef-
forts and be allowed to retain a fair share
of It for himself, his family, and the causes
he holds dear.
The Gospel according to Matthew informs
us that "The tree Is known by its fruit."
When It is appraised by this test, Ameri-
can free enterprise manifests Its superiority
over all other economic systems. I cite a few
facts which demonstrate this.
While It contains about six per cent of
the world's area and has only six per cent
of the world's population, the United States
has 71 per cent of the d a iCo'rirolilles,
52 per cent of th d's telephones, 44 per
cent of thew 's radios, 30 per cent of the
world's ra ds, and 66 per cent of the
world's a insurance.
Mor ver, free enterprise enables the
Uni States to enjoy a standard of living
so j iuch higher than that of other countries
o g families than any other land.
To sure, these are material things.
Nevert tr ss, they constitute an outward
sign of th ner grace of a nation, which
grants to all nomic. political, and reli-
gious freedom an us affords to each the
opportunity to beco the master of his
fate and the captain of ul.
All Americans should cher free enter-
prise and endeavor to preserve it. appliy,
ties controlled by government. Despite their
good Intentions to the contrary, others would
cripple free enterprise by subjecting it to
excessive governmental Intervention and reg-
ulation. or by substituting political planning
for individual Initiative and supervision.
Exlstng tax laws confiscate Inordinate
proportions of the earnings of Individuals
and In that way threaten the destruction
of their Incentive to produce.
In addition, far too many disbursements
are being made under employment security
and welfare laws to drones who are simply
too lazy to work and who look to the tax-
payers for bread and circuses.
These things Imperil free enterprise.
Those of us who esteem it the world's best
economic system cannot take its continu-
ance for granted merely because the rights
to liberty and property which make it work-
able are embodied in our constitutions.
Unfortunately, constitutions are not self-
One of America's wisest sons, a late
Judge Learned Hahn, expressed th-Wtruth in
"I often wonder wheth a do not rest
our hopes too muc con constitutions,
upon law, and-x courts. These are false
hopea;-Tselieve me, these are false hopes. Lib-
erty lies In the hearts of men and women;
when it dies there, no constitution, no law,
no court can save It; no constitution, no
law, no court can even do much to help It.
While it lies there, it needs no constitution,
no law, no court to save it."
Let us pay the price, whatever it may be,
to keep love of economic freedom allve in
the hearts of the men and women of our
land. Let us teach them by precept and by
example that Trumbull Cheer pictured free
enterprise aright In this verse:
"The power to choose the work I do,
To grow and have the larger view.
To know and feel that I am free,
To stand erect, not bow the knee,
To be not chattel of the State,
To be the master of my fate,
To dare, to risk, to lose, to win,
To make my own career begin,
To serve the world in my own way.
To gain in wisdom, day by day,
With hope and zest to climb, to rise,
I call that Private Enterprise."
INVINCIBLE GOVERNMENT
Mr. LONG of Missouri. Mr. President,
the September 1968 issue of Reader's
Digest twntains an article entitled "Time
for Reforiq in the Internal Revenue Serv-
ice," writtdti by Mr. John Barron. Hav-
ing read the. article carefully and having
fought the Internal Revenue Service for
many years, it is difficult to decide
whether the Reader's Digest deserves
congratulations or Is merely to be wished
"good luck."
The article s'iggests several serious
deficiencies in the operations of the In-
ternal Revenue Service, all of which
have been documented and substanti-
ated, not only by Mr. John Barron, but
by my Subcommittee on Administrative
Practice and Procedure, as well. The
article suggests the following :
1. The system can trnsforrn employees
into automatons by binding them to rigid
rules.
2. The IRS system encourages employees
to victimize citizens least able and likely
to defend themsel,,es.
grity of employees.
The IRS system robs employees of time,
opportunity, and Incentive to correct mis-
takes.s'nnd rectify wrongs,
Have had the experience of lifting
my sword against the Internal Revenue
Service. 7 respectfully and regrettably
,add a fiftAi point: Doing battle with the
Internal ITevenue Service is a thankless
task, for, all the resources of "Big
Brother" /are suddenly turned against
Becauife my subcommittee exposed the
IRS, bcause my subcommittee docu-
mente the bugs in the conference rooms,
the ony telephone trucks, the illegal
wir ap operations, plus many other in-
v ions of privacy, the Internal Revenue
ervice fought beck.
Many of our witnesses before the sub-
committee have found themselves in
trouble, merely because they were at-
tempting to state publicly what they be-
lieved. If any lessons are to be learned
from the 4-year light of the Subcommit-
tee on Administrative Practice and Pro-
cedure, it Is that government at all levels
should be responsive to the complaints of
Its citizenry. My subcommittee has at-
tempted to create an ombudsman to do
just that; yet the Government has re-
sisted it. The Senator from Washington
[Mr. MmmusoNl and I cosponsored a
small claims tax bill-a bill that was co-
sponsored by some 60 other Senators-
and Vain the Internal Revenue Service
balked.
Because of these "Big Brother" tac-
tics, I ask unanimous consent to have
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