When the property at his disposal is in the shape of industrial plant or industrial material, means of transportation or stock of goods awaiting distribution, then his decision not to employ this property, or to limit its use to something less than full capacity, in the way for which it is adapted, becomes sabotage, normally and with negligible exceptions.

In so doing he hinders, retards or obstructs the working of the country's industrial forces by so much.

It is a matter of course and of absolute necessity to the conduct of business, that any discretionary businessman must be free to deal or not to deal in any given case; to limit or to withhold the equipment under his control, without reservation.

Business discretion and business strategy, in fact, has no other means by which to work out its aims.

So that, in effect, all business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.