the function of capitalism predicts that potash does whatever they need to keep growing until they become purchase bait for jewel or dominicks anyway.

so, they will make whatever decision they have to make in order to become attractive to their suitors. that's the whole point. you grow to be purchased, then you retire or get into other things.

it is possxible that they can engineer things to make it less desireable for the workers to unionize, in tgerms of providing better benifits and such, but the goal is the same whether they do that or not.