Evening star., 1955-07-26
Look What Happened While You Were in Geneva!
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Commissioners have failed to
cope with this emergency.
This situation necessitates ex-
ecutive order by the Chief
Executive.
I am not arguing the merits
between the company and the
union, but I am saying that
the situation demands imme-
diate action and the President
should instruct Attorney Cen
eral BroWnell to issue a suit
for mandatory Injunction to
put the men back to work and
start transportation in the
District, asking the Federal
Court for a 60-day extension
to see if this matter cannot be
worked out for consideration
of a permanent injunction.
This was done in the coal
strike and it can be done in
this situation.
Harrison F. Mcconnell.
Y II u
Why is it that the press,
the columnists, commentators,
and radio broadcasters, as
we'll as the little bureaucrats
who run the Districts affairs,
and the blatant politicians on
the Hill, never mention the
unions part in the transit
strike? These hijackers have,
year after year, insisted upon
more pay, more benefits and
bigger pensions, until their
total compensation is now way
out of line with other transit
employees in this area. But that
must not be mentioned-a
vote or so might be involved.
Could it be that the bum
bling White House palace
guard is directing the tactics
of this situation as it has di-
rected, or attempted to direct,
others, and the little yes-men
on the Hill and in the Dis
trict building are just obey
ing orders?
Frank Powell.
On first reading, the letter
from Marion Walters in The
Star of July l9, seems abb
surd. But on further considerN-
ton it unfolds a first class
suggestion. I believe a straight
15c fare, and lower evening
rates, would result in a great
increase in patronage.
The school fares are ridicu-
lousy low at present, and I
see no reason why the many
people with no children should
subsidize the school fares.
I wish somebody would do
something.
Mrs. J. p. TOrbert.
I feel that the position re-
Gently taken by Operators
Wife" in her letter of July 20
cries for correction.
She contends that the take
home pay of her husband ($75
per week. is so small that she
must hold job herself to
make ends meet. This may
be true with a family of five,
if they choose to live on a rea-
sonably high plane. However.
her plight is shared by mothers
of large families everywhere
and has no bearing on what
her husbands salary should be.
!, who come from a family of
10 children and now have two
of my own, realize that sub
sidizing the raising of large
families is not the response
bility of an employer.
She obviously fails to realize
that very recently the average
salary in this country, for
everyone from cleaning women
to bank presidents. was ap-
proximately $50 per week.
Surely her husbands salary
must exceed this to yield $75
take-home pay. Thus, his is
a better-than-average salary.
believe the job of driving
a bus is one which, while ad-
mittedly being hard on the
nerves and tiresome. requires
only mediocre intellect and
little education.
For these reasons, I feel
that the transit operators in
Washington and elsewhere are
well paid for the job they
perform.
Consider, I ask you, Mrs
Operators Wife," our excel
lent but underpaid teachers
policemen, f1remen and many
other civil servants.
The same reasons would ap-
pear to rebut the recent state
ment by an official of the op-
orators union that the pro-
posed wage, If granted, woulc
indeed be a humble" one.
This is not to be construed
as approval on my part of the
policies Of the Capital Transit
Co., which / believe to bs
totally irresponsible.