Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR UNIONS While I agree with J. Anthony Marcus's observations (NL, September 16) about trade-union leaders staying in office too long, I cannot accept his contention that management...
...Lyons and Granet erect their own socialist bogeyman and proceed to polish him off...
...Philadelphia Walter R. Storey DJILAS Whether Milovan Djilas has embraced democratic socialism seems secondary in the dispute among Norman Thomas, Eugene Lyons and Nicholas Granet in your "Dear Editor" column...
...Messrs...
...The New York Times is the best newspaper in the world, and the second best isn't even close...
...Mamwoneck, N. Y. Tom Whitney Jr...
...Was "pluralism" endangered...
...Today, powerful trade unions give industrial workers far higher remuneration than that enjoyed by unorganized white-collar employes or migratory farm laborers...
...Its critical departments are lamentable...
...The virtues of the pluralistic society with its inherent conflicts and alternatives are thoroughly understood and appreciated by modern socialism...
...But this applies only to its news coverage...
...New York City Irwin Suall CROWTHER Three cheers for Wallace Markfield's review of the Bosley Crowther book (NL, September 16...
...None other than Norman Thomas himself has often exThe New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...pounded this viewpoint...
...Credit for improved working standards must also be given to our economy itself, for with relatively little unemployment employers have to make concessions to those on their payroll...
...Let them read The New Leader more carefully...
...To Granet, Djilas's belief in a pluralistic society seems incompatible with socialism...
...Better still, let them examine the works of democratic socialism in Britain and the Scandinavian countries...
...I have (thank God...
...With a few exceptions, working conditions and personnel practices were anti-employe until the basic, mass-production industries were organized by the U. S. labor movement in the 1930s...
...no connection with the movie industry whatever, but it has always seemed to me an intolerable absurdity that man like Bosley Crowther who performs his own job so miserably should be placed in a position of passing judgment on the work of others...
...The issue between modern socialism and capitalism is not "pluralism,'" but whether our citadels of economic power shall be institutionally responsible to democratic society...
...The content of the pluralistic society, socialists maintain, need not be centers of oligarchy and "profits iiber alles...
...Can it be that Granet and Lyons are totally unaware of the type of thinking and programming which democratic socialists have been engaged in for over a decade...
...Lyons and Granet should read "The Aims and Tasks of Democratic Socialism," the postwar statement of principles of the Socialist International...
...DEAR EDITOR UNIONS While I agree with J. Anthony Marcus's observations (NL, September 16) about trade-union leaders staying in office too long, I cannot accept his contention that management representatives have been responsible for enlightened labor relations...
...If it is wrong for union leaders to stay in office too long, the same argument should apply to industrialists, politicians, judges and even the clergy...
Vol. 40 • September 1957 • No. 39
