Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR CATHOLIC CITIZENS As an American Catholic, I would like to thank you for William Bonn’s article, “The Catholic as American Citizen” (NL, February 29), which I have just read. At a time...
...I feel safe in predicting that some of your readers are going to get mad at him for being too “soft” on the unions, and that some are going to get mad at him for being too “tough...
...poor U.S...
...The labor movement and the liberal forces are concerned about the high cost of medical attention, especially for our senior citizens, most of whom receive less than $1,000 a year per capita...
...citizens have to be paupers to receive free medical assistance...
...What about the present...
...I intend to continue to vote Republican regardless of who runs on the Democratic ticket at this time...
...And a union label does not automatically erase the prejudices and the weaknesses of union members...
...I feel confident that this machinery will continue to be used for erasing discrimination, and, hopefully, at a much faster clip...
...But the people opposing the Forand Bill have opposed these other vital medical aids...
...At a time like the present it is very reassuring to know that we have a few fellow Americans who do not think we have two heads...
...But I hate to think how much worse the situation would have been if there had not been labor participation in the fight...
...Philadelphia WALTER R. STOREY...
...NL, May 2) to raise false issues regarding medical care of the aged...
...April 18...
...Those who insist upon perfection in the labor movement are understandably impatient with the progress to date, but they do not serve the cause of equality by ignoring or pooh-poohing the progress that does take place...
...Washington HYMAN H. BOOKBINDER MEDICAL CARE I cannot allow Dr...
...For this reason I write to say that the piece is one of the most balanced, objective, constructive treatments of a very sensitive subject I have ever read...
...No one expects any economic scheme or medical technique to “cure grandfather...
...But on what issue is this true, including labor legislation...
...The important thing to note is that the machinery of the labor movement is being used in the right direction for the most part...
...The Doctor worries about the future—”our working population when they find themselves on a waiting list, unable to obtain medical care...
...Harold Koretz (“Dear Editor...
...Also as a Catholic...
...for cheers...
...I agree with Koretz that we need more hospitals and more doctors...
...Thoroughly inexcusable and harmful to the cause is the characterization of Fleischman’s type of reporting as “apology for racists”—the phrase used by NAACP Labor Secretary Herbert Hill recently in a letter to Commentary...
...People of moderate means go into debt to meet major medical expenses...
...From my own daily work, I can testify to the contribution which the labor movement as a whole has made to the fight for meaningful civil rights legislation, on Federal as well as state and local levels...
...The majority of my Catholic friends will do the same...
...It is like the record of society itself—but a few notches better...
...Sure enough, the results in Washington this year provide no grounds THE NEW LEADER welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...Philadelphia JAMES P. O’BRIEN LABOR’S ROLE Harry Fleischman has performed a mighty useful service in his ‘“Labor and the Civil Rights Revolution” (NL...
...The Forand Bill seems to be the fairest way to provide social insurance for this pressing need...
...Needless to say, not every affiliate responded positively...
...I know—because I was the person specifically charged with the responsibility—that the AFL-CIO placed civil rights on top of the legislative priority list and urged its affiliates to do everything possible, no matter what the consequences might be to other legislative objectives...
...The simple fact of the matter is that labor’s role in the civil rights area is both good and bad...
Vol. 43 • May 1960 • No. 20
