The Connecticut labor news., 1924-08-23
POSTAL WORKERS RESENT ANTI-UNION
 COOLIDGE SOP"
See in Visit of Reactionary Member to President Attempt to
 Corral Them.

l EC1NHNA | workers. In a letter to The Labor
 News one of them says:
 | The visit to the White House of a
 labor hating postal clerk official to con
 fer with another labor hater, President | Coolidge, if the press reports are true,
 is seen by organized labor to be a | move to support the discredited Re | publican administration.
 1 When one remembers that President l Coolidge vetoed the postal pay increase
 on June 7, it is astonishing to find a so-ca1led representative of postal clerks calling on the President to ascertain his views, if he has any at all, on pos tai pay increases.
 Silent Cal made no bones" about his
 distrust of organized labor Said this
 man: An organized effort by great
 body of public employees to secure an
 indiscriminate increase i'll compensation should have the most searching scrut- iny" The slam at Labor could not be
 greater
 The president of the anti-union asso- ciation Is either totally ignorant of the
 status of the postal pay bill or else he
 has a lapse of memory and has forgot
 ten the presidential veto. The presi-
 dential veto is still an order of busi-
 ness as soon as the Senate meets
 again. The President had a chance to
 do his bit before the Senate adjourned
 and he did with reverse gears! The
 matter IS out of the hands of the Chief
 Executive and it rests with the Amer
 ican people as personifed by Con- gress to act on the veto.
 l What then can be the reason of the
 so-called meeting of the two anti-1abor
 chiefs? If 1t is publicity for the now
 discredited association and it's officers
 it succeeded in making a laughing
 stock of themselves before the eyes o1
 the majority of postal employees. The postal employees as a rule can read English, much to the surprise of some
 of the sO-called leaders who think they
 are hoodwinking them. They know
 what the administration stands for, for
 the administration clearly set down in
 writing the veto to their increase in salaries. That means more to them
 than all the vague promises promised
 by an executive who has acted other
 wise in the past.
 Then of course the statement of the | secretary of the anti-labor clerks on the witness stand before the joint com a1 Colo | hard record to live down. Although | this Is not the same 'officia1' who Is supposed to have seen the President, he is supposed to be also an 'officia1' of the same association. Said this wise 'offlcia1' in asking for raise: You
 know as we'll as I do that the Govern ment Is under no obligation to say that you have got to provide a living wage just because a man needs 1t. If you go to a bank and ask for $100 and tell them that your family is starving and you have to have it, will they give it to you?" Then listen to Coolidge Government extravaganza must stop. The people of the nationsa sare paying all that 1t is possible for them to pay have taken my position in relation to government economy, which I have stated and restated until it is we'll known. I feel that that position ought | to be consistent. 1 do not see how I | can approve the large increase in ex- penditure of this kind except on the plea of urgent necessity. There is l nothing that really separates the two | and perhaps that explains the reason | why there is not, an outspoken word | of their own against the presidential | veto i'll their "officiaT' organ. Both the | anti-union president and the anti-un- ion president Of the clerks have some thing in common. to make people be- l l1eve they are for the postal employees. i
 According to one dispatch, they l had been assured of his support for any | postal pay increase bill scientifically | drawn and carrying provision for rais- ing the necessary revenue" There is no conclusive evidence that the Presi- 1 dent will support a revenue carrying | bill. He may" but that is as vague as a promise from the Republican platform.
 The insinuation that only the post office department can frame a scen- tihcally drawn bill is a reflection on the American people. It took Congress six months before the present bill was drafted in it's final form It is a com promise, but more than the postoffice was willing to give. If the organized postal employees had been willing to accept what the postoffice department was willing to give there would have