Evening star., 1949-01-20
Pricing People Out Of the Market


cratic Congressman, but that did not mean
that was giving that Congressman man
date to let labor repeal the Taft-Hartley law
and place the people of this country at the
mercy of labor racketeers
If by strikes. bolstered by mass picketing,
violence and sabotage, wages can be lacked up
80 per cent there Is nothing to prevent them
from being jacked up 100 per cent by the same
methods. Already millions OF unorganized
white collar workers have been priced out of
the market for homes, automobiles and the
like; and if there is to be no control what
ever over labor, these people will soon be
priced out Of the market for the bare necessi-
ties of life.
Let Congressmen remember that 1t is only
two years to another election and that the
people who elected them will expect them to
represent all of their constituents and not
merely those who are organized.
MONITOR.
Denies Labor Is Unreasonable
To the Editor Of The Star:
Well, well, he did 1t again. One can only
wonder and admire such versatility as 1t Is
displayed by your correspondent, Andrew w.
Larman.
This time he is willing and anxious to leave
in disgust Arabs and Jews, Europe and ASIA
to their deserved fate and contribute his two
cents on the internal affairs of this country
As I could see from his letter OF January
IS, American labor and its attitude toward
unreasonable wage demands, bigger social
security, free medical treatment and re-
straint in price increases are upsetting Mr.
Larman's equilibrium. Nothing else could ex-
plain his choice of nvectives, as such gems
could testify, for instance, "the chiseers OF the
laborng class organized labor, 'cowardly
government" president Truman and "the
labor gang"
England and Europe were not wrecked by
labor and socialism, as Mr.. Larman claims, but
by the greed of the ruling classes, racial
hatred and intense nationalism aroused for
the sole purpose of o1setting their demands
for larger share in the product OF their labor.
The present mild social reforms in England
and some other European countries are in
tended to heal some of the wounds caused by
war and the policy of dog eat dog" or rugged
indvidualism" and "free enterprise"
Evidently Mr.. Larman knows little or nothing
of the social laws protecting the working
class in Sweden and Switzerland, where they
have been in existence close to IS years: and
yet those countries are not wrecked on ac-
count of labor ana socialism, out are nourlsn-
ing and prosperous.
Our own labor is not asking something for
nothing Labor contributes its share to social
security by deductions from its wages for this
purpose, and the same could be done with Mr..
Larman's so-called free medical treatment
The demands of labor are not unreasonable
when it comes to higher wages. Just put
stop to the daily increases in the price of life's
necessities and you will find labor more than
ready to remain at its present wage level.
However, am sure that Mr. Larman will
squeal to high heaven against any attempt to
increase taxes against those who could well
afford milion-dollar yachts, large estates with
numerous servants etc.
Is Mr.. Larman a member of that exclusive
society, or is he just initiating, parrot-like the
propaganda of the National Manufacturers
Association? EUGENE ESTEN.