Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR STEEL CRISIS Edward Engberg claims that “The Real Crisis in Steel” (NL, November 9) “is not management’s right to replace men with machines, but its right to displace one kind of...
...I assumed, and reported in the article, that the name of the committee in America which backs the station had been changed in the same way...
...and though the 1930 Conference retracted the stand, it did so only in a hesitant and confused manner, by a small majority and with many abstentions...
...Also, increases in productivity make possible more research and “overhead” services, which British economist Colin Clark characterizes as “tertiary industries,” whose expansion he considers inevitable with technological progress...
...Until recently, Anglican opposition to contraception was a serious force...
...Buffalo C. I. CLAFLIN VIETNAM I would like to commend Wesley R. Fishel for his article, “Vietnam’s Democratic One-Man Rule” (NL, November 2...
...This used to be the result of competition rather than of conspiratorial power, which is clearly illegal in industry and is certainly immoral for a union, since it does not give marginal companies the opportunity to survive in the absence of a price increase because of union-imposed featherbedding...
...But is not a pronouncement by the Pope as to “natural and divine law” dogmatic for practical purposes...
...According to my information, she was an Anglican of the strongly Catholic type...
...Thus, to impose restrictions on “overhead” labor force is to choke off increases in direct worker productivity, just as profit restrictions do, or the establishment of unnecessary funds (Engberg’s recipe), which could be used in necessary mechanization at a rate consistent with normal worker turnover...
...But Engberg’s over-simplification is frivolous, and argues for the union’s right to mismanage, to prevent increases in productivity by confusing featherbedding with inefficiency, and also with executive remuneration and benefits (due largely to high progressive income taxes...
...Pittsburgh ARTHUR O. SHARRON CORRECTION I would like to correct an error I made in my column, “Radio Liberty on the Air” (NL, November 16...
...In Munich, where the article was written, the emphasis was on the change of the name of the radio station from “Radio Liberation” to “Radio Liberty,” and the reasons for this change...
...No Roman Catholic statement I have ever seen before based the teaching on Biblical injunction plus experience: These were brought in as supports, but the primary basis was theoretical principle—”the immediate end of a natural act must not be frustrated...
...Yes, the real crisis is the right to manage...
...CATHOLIC PRESIDENT In his “The Presidency and the Church” (NL, November 9), Lewis S. Feuer basically is not so much concerned over the possible election of a Catholic as he is that someone may get into the White House who really believes that mankind might survive its own humanity...
...Increases in productivity, arising from automation (which is, by definition, displacement of labor), mean fewer production workers and more non-production workers, as in preproduction and support functions...
...Fully offsetting price increases will spread the unemployment effect among all companies...
...Dobbins Air Base, Ga...
...These employes, unlike Government employes supported through coercive taxes and without risk of discharge, have their jobs to lose in making incorrect decisions and in ceasing to contribute to the economic life of their companies...
...George N. Shuster’s reply to Feuer is disappointing...
...From what I was able to learn in a brief visit in Vietnam last year, the country is making continuous progress...
...I think, as the author brought out, that we fail to realize sometimes that democracy in America has roots, and the tree of democracy cannot automatically be grafted full-grown on to quite a different set of roots...
...I do not know of any other “official approval...
...Searcy, Arkansas JAMES D. BALES...
...President Ngo Dinh Diem is so dedicated to the work to which he has committed himself that it consumes his entire life...
...DEAR EDITOR STEEL CRISIS Edward Engberg claims that “The Real Crisis in Steel” (NL, November 9) “is not management’s right to replace men with machines, but its right to displace one kind of employe, the production worker, with other kinds, chiefly salesmen and the civil servants of management...
...BUCK A. HARRISS I believe Lewis Feuer erred in referring to India’s former Minister of Health...
...Cambridge WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN THE NEW LEADER welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...In the metaphysical sense, Roman Catholic teaching on this subject is of course not “dogmatic...
...Largely for this reason, Engberg’s “civil servants of management” have started to unionize, for their own featherbedding...
...Engberg’s frivolity is revealed by his reference to “the civil servants of management...
...Rajkumari Amrit Kaur (a woman), as a Catholic...
...The Lambeth Conference of 1920 came out against it...
...This is not the case...
...the committee still retains the name “Committee for Liberation...
...The real crisis stems not from the changing composition of the labor force but from the effects of Steelworkers’ President David McDonald’s demands that plants which do not mechanize “have no right to exist...
...Anglican Bishop James Pike of San Francisco speaks only for himself...
...only partially offsetting price increases will concentrate the unemployment in whole companies, marginal not because of excessive overhead but insufficient mechanization, vertical integration and relief from union encroachment...
...like most of those who hold his selfish, frightened, fundamentally inhuman view of the “population explosion,” he doggedly ignores the irony of it: While “the population increase is frustrating the effort to raise the standard of living in such countries as India,” the mechanical measures he favors to raise the standard of living would frustrate life itself...
Vol. 42 • November 1959 • No. 44
