Evening star., 1946-05-09
Letters to The Star
Calls for Public Resistance
To Eminent Trasedian'
To the Editor Of The Star

oAANt ColAaACos AICU VIC u diIlo dIAu 1uI-
tories grind to stop. But let's have
a showdown with John L. Lewis; also
with that Senate committee that keeps
all labor reform bills from being voted
on and thus maintains the tyrannical
| power Of labor unions at your expense
| and mine
Every year at this time the eminent
tragedian puts on this phony show
and rants and struts across the ma
tional stage. The cost to us, the au-
dience, is much too much. This time,
let's stick in our seats and hoot the act
off the boards, once and for all.
Give the miners (and others what
they are honestly entitled to, and have
the courage to set up legal machinery
to decide this in judicial manner and
enforce the decision, despite the howls
of labor bosses on the one hand or the
groans of business bosses on the other
But let's stop putting, statutory guns
!! and clubs in the hands of such as John
| L. Lewis and his counterparts. Let's
stop giving labor Hitlerian power with
no responsibility. F. F.
Mining Survey Commended
| To the Editor OF The Star:
The series of articles by James Newton
on the Kentucky and West Virginia
| coal miners are the clearest reflec-
ton that I have read of the squalid
conditions which are evident to any
one who ever has visited or passed
l.
With wages averaging $3.50 a month
! and rents only s12 a month, it is clear
/ that the miners need something besides
an increase in wages. From the re-
marks of the miners questioned, it is
clear that the miners have no idea what
it is that they need. 1t is equally, clear
that additional wages will merely 60
into more booze instead of more boots
and shoes-booze which units the
miner for better work and kills ambi-
tion for improvement.
From a slight personal knowledge
Of such conditions, I know that it is
not very easy for the professional do
gooder" to do much toward improving
the situation-the employers always are
asking for one important improvement,
namely. disqualification; but he obvi-
ously, being a clever man, cannot ex-
pect to have unlimited direction of
other peoples money, such as his pres
ent proposal indicates. If the mine
owners expect to retain private owner
ship and control OF their properties,
they must make common cause along
sane lines for social improvement in
these mining towns. Otherwise, another
decade will find determined drive in
the United States for the nationaliza-
tion Of mines, as already has happened
in England.
have the idea that these articles
which ran in The Star. if published in
pamphlet form, might have an impor-
tant educative value for all concerned
JOHN EARL BAKER.
Criticizes Organized Labor
To the Editor OF The Star:
The President has informed the
people that the coal strike is national
disaster; but the people already knew
that. They also know that all strikes
by organized labor are threats to the
Nation.
1t seems to me that the Presidents
warning is an empty gesture. Why does
he not perform his duty under his oath
of office and do something about the
danger? He had the power and the
means to do so.
Organized labor and constitutional
government cannot exist together In the
United States. RICHARD FOURCHY.
Blames All.Day Parkers
To the Editor of The Star:
I observe that The Star keeps in
formed on developments in the studies
of the parking problem in American
shopping centers.
May inject the suggestion that what
blocks the solution of this problem is
the personal selflshness of the very
quick and easy parking should become
possible for the class of drivers who do
most of the retail shopping?
A cursory personal check convinced
me several years ago that in Washing
ton more than half the downtown and
nearby parking spaces in public streets
and alleys are monopolized all day long
by the workers in Offices and stores.
7 venture to say that upward of 100
spaces near each of our big downtown
department stores are taken every shop
ping day by employees of those stores
most particularly including the execu-
tives and other higher employees aHho
should realize that they individually
are cutting down their stores revenues.
If these all-day parkers did not mo-
nopolize the most convenient spots
there would be spaces enough available
to enable many thousands of transient
shoppers and business patrons to visit,
each for satisfactory length of time.
the innermost section of the city, park
ing distance.
Justice dictates that users of public
streets should pay in proportion to their
usage. If cities sold communication tick
cts for downtown parking privileges,
good for say 100 parkings, at say two
cents per parking punch and If pa
trolman punched all tickets (afflxed to
cars near license plates) on an hourly
schedule, the total monthly cost of all
day parking would discourage most all
day street parkers.
! JOHN D. CREHORE.
Disasrees With the President
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