THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Our Most Urgent Need Dear Sirs: Newspaper columns are filled with the great debate on the shortcomings of American education. A recent poll of U.S. public opinion, cited by...
...Dulles...
...As I recall it, the conditions of the grant by the foundation which makes possible the publication of this widely read bulletin demand objectivity and impartiality...
...Seventy per cent of the electorate was disenfranchised, and voting was carried on by voice-vote in front of the soldiery...
...There is, of course, in America an unlimited diversity of opinion regarding foreign affairs...
...The encouraging note was that in spite of strong statements, fierce threats, and some displays of temper, I had a feeling that both sides realize they eventually have to work out a solution around the conference table...
...So long as our national moral sense remains crushed under the weight of Cold War tactical considerations, so long shall we present our present pathetic, fumbling hypocrisy to the world as American principles in action...
...Paul Hacher Olympia, Wash...
...Beals Replies Dear Sirs: Had it not been for some $70,000,000 of American aid rushed to Castillo Armas, his arbitrary regime could hardly have survived until his assassination...
...I agree in substance with your objections to American foreign policy as he personifies ft...
...Dulles himself...
...Eby's reform list is puny indeed when compared with the "Principles of Merger" which stated that the new federation ". . . shall constitutionally affirm its determination to protect the American trade union movement from any and all corrupt influences...
...So often the crusader for the brotherhood of man is actually attempting desperately to prove to himself the fatherhood of God...
...This Tunisian incident and similar embarrassing incidents in recent years have driven home, in all but the thickest of skulls, this point: we cannot be on the side of the angels and at the same time play the devil's game of power politics...
...Yet powerless union leaders and purposeless union education are not signs of virtue...
...Gordon is welcome to his bedfellows...
...Let's put ours in order...
...Julian Jack New York, N. Y. Fear of Israel Dear Sirs: Norman Thomas, in the March issue of The Progressive, states that the outstanding fact in the Near East is the depth of the fear of Israel on the part of the Arabs as a spearhead for Western imperialism...
...We have high standards of our own making and we are in the process of cleansing ourselves of that sort, understanding but not afraid of the obstacles before us...
...Managing Editor, Social Order St...
...True, as a man of mental genius he did not choose the mundane or orthodox path, but is this cause to question his obvious motivation...
...The Castillo Armas regime was "illegal," of course, since it got rid of Arbenz in the only possible way...
...Various American veteran officers were employed...
...Wiley saw and fought against the dangers in modern milling and bleaching of flour, refining and bleaching of sugar...
...At one point the article is critical of our corruption by the mores of the world around us, in another part it demands that we "move with the community and not against it...
...Did you notice that any of the medical research scientists at Jimmy Fund Building in Children's Hospital paid or had paid attention to the parents' behavior towards tobacco...
...But his bias is clearly shown in his suggestion that Castillo took Hitler as his model, for his mustache and his actions...
...A higher morality for labor leaders...
...While some leaders deserve Eby's criticism, the apathy of the rank and file (created by their own cash-register contentment with the advances which have been won) is the basic cause when democratic practices in the operation of some unions disappear...
...It is not possible to deal in a brief letter with Mr...
...Professor Eby, of all people, should know this...
...We accept and have codified a higher morality than that of the general community...
...Agronsky was intent on obtaining insight into a subject which all too often has been filled with hate...
...The fact is that many thousands of local union officers and representatives eat out their hearts and minds trying to persuade members to come to meetings and to participate in the decision-making processes...
...Eby overlooks the tremendous disservice which the Communist Party capture-by-caucus did to all chances of "loyal oppositions" in the trade unions...
...Food, Tobacco, and Cancer Dear Sirs: Senator Neuberger's call to arms against the "Greatest Killer of Kids" does more honor to his warm heart than to the astute statesman's mind he shows on other occasions...
...Dulles, whom you are continuously assaulting in your columns...
...Dulles is...
...This is pure nonsense...
...The world crisis calls for more expert help on techniques for international agreement rather than expert help on techniques to blow us all to kingdom come...
...John Halcone Pasadena, Calif...
...Not even the Iron Curtain countries have dared be quite that raw...
...Most unions are now facing courageously their problems of democracy vis-a-vis bigness...
...But almost more striking than the Communist domination was the blatant spoilsmanship, incompetence, and irresponsibility that the record also shows...
...A trial conducted by a hanging judge would seem mild by comparison...
...This feeble, uncandid hope expired in a Times headline two days later: "Gaillard Defends Bombing and Wins Vote of Support...
...All this is not the fault of Mr...
...Du Bois has filled as educator, prophet, citizen of his native land and of the world, with messages pouring in from Africa, India, Europe, and Asia...
...The assorted evasions, excuses, and euphemisms used to obscure the issues in this affair are an alarming indication of just how widespread moral "double-think" has become among pundits and politicians...
...Even after the French government had officially accepted responsibility for the bombing a New York Times editorial (Feb...
...Plans are advanced by faculty and laymen, including one by President Eisenhower, to produce mote scientists and engineers lest the Russians continue to outflank us...
...But it would engage people at the grass roots and this alone would be healthy...
...The silence may, however, embarrass more persons than the several authors...
...Education (as the Soviet Union has so kindly shown us) is the chief weapon in a nation's foreign policy...
...In fact, the former was no more like Hitler's than like, say, Tom Dewey's...
...Governor Collins, Moderate Dear Sirs: As Mr...
...The processors succeeded in ousting from the Department of Agriculture's bureau o? chemistry its head, Harvey W. Wiley, and in smothering the pure food crusade of 50 years ago...
...and the Secretary of State has no choice but to conduct himself agreeably to Congress...
...Pendleton Herring, head of the Social Science Research Council, has recently argued this point very forcibly...
...Al Klincer Chicago, 111...
...One need not have Eby's "piles of sources" to know that in many areas where barriers have existed, real progress has been made to remove them and expand membership participation and control...
...Peasants were thrown off the land, lands were stolen by favorites, the forced plantation labor-gang system revived, wages which had reached a dollar a day were driven back toward the previous fifteen cents level...
...What labor needs is not the muddled thinking of Eby...
...But the basic reason for such a policy is that the American people as a whole have little or no vision of American responsibility in the conduct of foreign affairs—probably a good deal less than Mr...
...The whole frame of interrogation was that of a prosecutor, jubilant with his way of life, who is intent on confession-wringing...
...Mechanical difficulties would be enormous...
...but it made major contributions to the genuine economic and social progress of the country, and it was not, by any standard and especially by comparison to its predecessor, a bloody dictatorship, Beals artfully plays down the Communist influence in the Arbenz government without explicitly denying it...
...Dulles and the other "practical" men who continue to trust in these amoral policies are the hopeless idealists of the atomic era...
...That Mr...
...He would have us say to our delegates, and our delegates to each other, "Now, now, if we pick a convention city with a pleasant climate you may not go near the water...
...In every instance, outside agencies, such as the Honest Ballot Association, should be used where necessary to supervise union elections in order to give the opposition a chance not only to vote but to get its votes counted...
...If tobacco smoking can derange the regular process of life in lung cells, why not in the parents' reproductive cells...
...I think it is time that we Americans show ourselves as the stout-hearted, mature people we can be...
...Distinguished and eloquent speakers gave tongue to what was in the hearts of us all in praising the roles Dr...
...James B. Fleek Associate Professor Jacksonville University Jacksonville Beach, Fla...
...Fast's Purgatory Dear Sirs: Mr...
...Mrs...
...Double-Think' on France Dear Sirs: The wrist-tapping rebuke delivered by the American press and American officialdom to the French for their atrocity in Tunisia is a striking instance of the hypocrisy of our foreign policy and an explanation of our propaganda defeats in Africa and Asia...
...Dulles has...
...Some new organizations were created, headed by government stooges...
...The Guatemalan Fuehrer, regardless of the cut of his moustache, was most genial—so are Batista of Cuba and to a lesser degree, Trujillo of the Dominican Republic...
...10) contained this pious remonstrance: ". . . reproaches are no answer...
...Agronsky, was the last time you made a bad mistake and had guts enough not only to admit it, but were also willing to make amends for it...
...The answer is simple: more money, more respect, more prestige for the teaching profession...
...But money like that always converts a certain number of Americans, including Senators, to starry-eyed praise of the worst dictatorships...
...the idea that any ambitious officer in 1947 (which is the time to which Beals refers) would keep Hitler's picture on his desk is palpably absurd...
...Unless the rank and file are on their toes to preserve their right to criticize and freely elect their officers, it is only natural that the union leader will arrogate powers to himself and identify his personal ego with the union...
...A hydro-electric project was dropped, out of deference to the subsidiary of the American company that provides such lamentable service...
...Castillo destroyed the labor confederation (seven Communist officials out of 49, State Department White Paper) and the Peasants' Confederation (one suspected Communist— his brother was a Communist, White Paper...
...He apparently would feel more sure of our future if we accepted common guilt with the Becks, or, uncorrupted "by the mores of the world," we refused to accept a pleasant convention city...
...F. B. Wold Ferndale, Mich...
...A good many unions, including ours, are consciously self-critical of the union's performance, so much so that thousands of members and their local officers are being asked to provide ideas and methods designed to improve the union's work...
...To get such a result will require new, bold, imaginative thinking...
...But of course we don't accept Beck's guilt as our own...
...We must stop the bomb some time, in our own interest, and if Russia truly stops it now our position cannot be to continue with it...
...Scandalous concessions were made to American business, and the oil concessions failed to protect the Guatemalan people...
...The discussion was an interesting one, as the majority of these present were Arab and Jewish students...
...Fast felt himself now compelled to turn to another, perhaps more popular and orthodox religion...
...Recalling "The Tragedy of W.E.B...
...Let me conclude with this question to Senator Neuberger...
...Boardman is in error, I believe, in his statement that no school, college, or university in Florida is integrated...
...Wayne, Ind...
...Be as a tower, that, firmly set, shakes not its top for any blast that blows...
...His loaded and inaccurate contrast of the "elected government of President Jacobo Ar-benz" with the "illegal and bloody dictatorship of Castillo Armas" is outrageous to anyone who knows the combination of assassination, intimidation, corruption, and electoral fraud by which Arbenz gained and kept power...
...Of course, higher and more meaningful than the meager list given us by Eby...
...It would be less than fair to say that Mr...
...and one in the United States, and go down the blocks, house to house, and see how many would sign a peace pact, desiring co-existence and no nuclear war...
...But when I was in the Near East it seemed to me the chief fear of the Westernized Arabs who are in control was the example Israel was setting before the exploited Arabs and how the poor Arabs could change their status by getting these exploiters off their necks...
...David L. Gordon Washington, D.C...
...In addition to printed sources, which are wholly inadequate, I would like to talk or correspond with many people who had first-hand experiences with Klan and anti-Klan political movements...
...it was inept and inadequate in a number of respects...
...He won a clear majority over the other three candidates in the primary...
...Carleton Beals Deep River, Conn...
...Rev...
...Nevertheless, many of us wish that union leaders would study and take to heart most of his suggestions and acquire humor, self-criticism, and dedication to internal union democracy...
...Eby takes a self-righteous stance, then proceeds to demand standards lower than those already adopted by our labor movement...
...The principal difference is that while the British had an apparatus of imperialism by which their view could be imposed by material force when moral force failed, America has no such apparatus today, and fails of either kind of force...
...Now it is clearly our place and our time to join Russia against the bomb...
...What labor needs is more self-criticism of the kind that produced the Ethical Practices Codes...
...Fast does not seem to have learned yet that his is a needless search...
...Herbert Harvey Hackensack, N. J. DuBois No Tragedy Dear Sirs: One thousand applauding friends and admirers filled the grand ballroom of the Hotel Roosevelt March 2 to honor W.E.B...
...J. Pius Barbour Chester, Pa...
...Castillo Armas came into power by means of a big slush fund provided by wealthy landowners and foreign companies, with German and American arms secured in Europe through Luis Somoza and others, and the help of the adjacent Honduras military government...
...Stuart Chase Georgetown, Conn...
...My phrase "illegal and bloody" dictatorship was too strong...
...Muriel I. Symington Brooklyn, N. Y. Fast's Search for Love Dear Sirs: The interview with Howard Fast in the March Progressive seems to me at one time profoundly moving and much ado about nothing...
...Ideally, a rich trade union leader should be as exceptional as a wealthy priest or pastor, because trade union leadership should still be a vocation with non-pecuniary incentives...
...Dulles and the Administration and most of the American press have been dragging out their accusations and suspicions and their hate too long...
...Agronsky thanked Mr...
...The ideal leader should, of course, stimulate eternal vigilance, but he, just as a political leader, cannot create it by himself...
...Favoritism...
...My own observation has shown me that far from being an innocuous, pale-blooded organ, Southern School News has led many officials, politicians, and citizens to stop to think about both fact and principle...
...There is a moral difference between the mass murder of Hungarians by Communist imperialists and the mass murder of Tunisians by French imperialists, and between Communist lies and French lies...
...Here is, I believe, a new, an explosive and an effective idea: Let Congress amend the income tax law to read, "No income tax shall be collected on any teaching salary...
...The union of the Western powers must not be weakened by the folly of a few individuals in a single country...
...his determination and strength in carrying out that decision ennobles him and in many ways can serve as an example to us...
...The labor movement is damaged when exceptional leaders repeat the excesses of the Nineteenth Century "robber barons" and the ostentatious display of the nouveau riche...
...There is a curious paradox here...
...Eby's article does not fill either need...
...Defends Southern Journal Dear Sirs: As a fellow Southerner of Professor Francis M. Wilhoit, I found his reviews of three new books on Dixie in the March Progressive quite interesting and stimulating...
...When unions have big welfare funds, insurance concerns will bribe their leaders to get business...
...Governor Collins took a moderate position and refused to use the race issue for political purposes...
...Why clamor for more millions for cancer research when the way to avoid the disease can be seen by the simplest of mind and eye, but is blocked by the food processing industry, with the help of politicians...
...Louis, Mo...
...How does his story differ from that of thousands who come and go into and out of various religions, searching vainly for love...
...Their analysis can be obtained by writing the Congress at 15 East 84th St., New York 28, N. Y. J. V. and L. L. Hopkins New Haven, Conn...
...Most unions and their leaders are doing something about two-way communication within their organizations...
...Although in general I agree with his remarks on With All Deliberate Speed, his quarrel with the "clipping agency" objectivity of Southern School News is in my opinion unrealistic...
...It goes not far afield to speculate that future historians may be dating the dawn of understanding of the Russians and ourselves from the approximate date of its publication...
...Thus it would be no surprise if Mr...
...An exciting decade has gone by since last he was directly associated with the labor movement...
...Boardman [People's Forum, March] should know, LeRoy Collins was elected governor of Florida in a four-way race...
...Union journals should, as a matter of principle, run an open column for squawks...
...Would it be 25 per cent positive, or 50 or 85 per cent...
...From time to time they have to be taught by America's strong right arm when they go too far in offending the moral sense of right-thinking people...
...There are encouraging signs that many union members and union leaders feel that they have been asleep at the switch and they are ready to return to first principles...
...Atrocities committed by our enemies are atrocities, but atrocities committed by our friends are "tragic incidents" and "regrettable occurrences"—things that are not willed but just happen...
...Before elections there should be an opportunity for all candidates and factions to place their views before the members, with the recognition that some limits on factional strife may be applied because a union is more than a debating society...
...Dawn of Understanding Please accept warmest compliments on the March issue...
...The evidence is on file at the United Nations should Mr...
...Your attacks, it seems to me, should be made on the mass of the American voters, particularly those of the Middle West, whose representative, at two or three removes, Mr...
...Teachers and Taxes Dear Sirs: All agree we must have more and better teachers...
...Dulles' policy is chauvinistic, threatening, and short-sighted arises no doubt in part out of the soul of Mr...
...America's defensive attitude since the first Sputnik must be overcome...
...Outraged by Beals Dear Sirs: I cannot claim to be "one of the nation's foremost authorities on Latin America," but I do know something, at first hand, about the situation in Guatemala, and I was shocked at the way in which Carleton Beals' article in your January issue distorted and misrepresented the picture...
...Lowry Ware History Dept...
...Within this diversity, however, the greatest number is grouped about a center of gravity where the feeling is that those foreigners, who know so little about what is right, have got to be kept in their place...
...Not much can be said for Eby's suggestion that we rotate leaders...
...I believe we are trying to get the best of these two worlds...
...Two of these candidates, General Lowry and former Governor Warren, were avowed racists...
...New York teamsters, for example, in recent elections re-elected a pro-Hoffa slate...
...Raymond Bernard, S.J...
...Stop the Bomb Dear Sirs: A few Americans at least have felt great joy that Russia is to suspend indefinitely her bomb tests...
...To one of his intellect this would also probably prove a sad disappointment...
...Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, formerly an all-Negro college has, or at least had recently, a few white students, as well as several white faculty members...
...Gordon care to examine it...
...He abolished the national teachers' federation, the various student federations and the writers and artists association (two "veiled" Communists, the evidence being they had spoken favorably of the Roosevelt New Deal, White Paper...
...C. W. Griffin Erlton, N. J. Dulles Reflects America Dear Sirs: It is necessary at last on certain grounds to remonstrate with you with regard to Mr...
...and I can attest from extensive personal contact that Castillo's political views were far from Hitlerian...
...Perhaps so...
...Survival, our survival, demands it...
...Norman Amundson Manchester, England Grass Roots on Peace Dear Sirs: Your issue, "The Russians and Ourselves," is filled with insights...
...Helpful on Middle East Dear Sirs: Recently I used The Progressive's special issue on the Middle East to great advantage when I was asked to act as a moderator at an open symposium on the subject, "Power Politics in the Middle East...
...Ten Per Cent Peace Plan Dear Sirs: Would it not be possible for the United States and the Soviet Union to agree mutually to decrease military expenditures by 10 per cent annually for the next ten years (retaining only sufficient forces to maintain order in their dominions) and devote the money saved to mutual assistance of backward nations to raise the standard of living amongst their peoples...
...The real defense, however, of America, of her allies, and of mankind does not lie in guided missiles but in the complex details of expert negotiation at ground level, at the summit and at all levels between...
...There was only one candidate—Castillo...
...Eby asks why members should attend union meetings when the "power structures are rigged, and there is no ideology unless it is an emphasis on more...
...The Indian language schools, books, newspapers, and radio were wiped out, the anti-illiteracy campaign dropped...
...Perhaps if enough of us demonstrate our appreciation for his talent and empathy for his motives, his sad search will be over...
...Lawrence Allen Bfxoof Los Angeles, Calif...
...Would it be impractical to try to get two towns of comparable size, one in the U.S.S.R...
...Let us hope he does not have to undergo this ordeal again...
...It strengthens my conviction that we need somehow to get the little peoples of both giant countries together since the heads of state seem incapable...
...This would be proof of sincerity of claims that they strive for world peace...
...Fast remained remarkably dignified under this pounding...
...Anti-discrimination Laws Dear Sirs: Should your readers wish a thoroughly detailed analysis of anti-discrimination laws— for our article in your February issue was necessarily only a survey—they will find an excellent report has been prepared by the American Jewish Congress's Commission on Law and Social Action...
...It also could use informed, detailed, scholarly analysis and criticism from the outside...
...Du Bois" by Francis Broderick in The Progressive for February, I thought that if this be "tragedy" then there emerged here a new definition of that term...
...But if society praises the union for rejecting the class struggle and for accepting business values and its methods, it cannot expect union leaders to be economic celibates...
...Burdens inevitably rest upon the shoulders of all such as he—the world's elect—those never "pledged to serve by the words of any master" and a measure of loneliness at times must be the portion of those who obey Virgil's behest to Dante, "Come after me, and to their babblings leave the crowd...
...Beals' many false and misleading statements...
...Wilhoit's comment that there is a strange silence about the role of religion in the Southern crisis is too true...
...But in this there is no tragedy...
...Previously all parties had functioned, and the Guatemalan Labor Party (Communist, 1,000 members) had elected four deputies out of 54, and Conservative anti-government parties had elected many more (White Paper...
...There is no question that among the American people there are many who perceive the issues involved in foreign policy, and who can point out intelligent measures...
...Of course...
...Castillo destroyed all political parties except one he set up and a small Catholic Party, and even this was beaten and harassed...
...But our Representatives and Senators, who are elected by the majority, reflect the majority opinion...
...public opinion, cited by Elmo Roper, gives superior education as the outstanding reason for Russia's lead in satellites...
...KKK, First Hand I am preparing a study of the role of the Ku Klux Klan in American politics during the 1920's...
...He is not "liberal" enough to suit some of us, but his statement in The Progressive is pretty good evidence that Governor Collins is not committed to holding the line on segregation at every level...
...Never has this country produced as great a writer as Howard Fast...
...Mark Starr Educational Director International Ladies Garment Workers Union New York, N. Y. Eby: Pure Nonsense Dear Sirs: In his article in the April issue of The Progressive, entitled "What Labor Needs," Professor Kermit Eby fully identifies himself as the master of the empty though pious platitude...
...And a concern for the community as a whole...
...Fast is to be congratulated for his decision...
...Even the Masons became illegal...
...Success tests a leader more dangerously than failure in many instances...
...This would mean an immediate increase in teaching pay of 20 to 25 per cent...
...The history of the "wobblies" who practiced rotation proves that stability and effectiveness of the labor organization does not result from this practice...
...Lord Acton's dictum on the corruption of power applies to unions as to other agencies...
...Then, too, if labor has no group philosophy, the normal business philosophy to get rich honestly or otherwise fills the vacuum...
...Fast at the end of their exchange (The Progressive, March) and acknowledged that Mr...
...One need only look at the current auto negotiations and the union's attempt to chart a non-inflationary course while fully concerned with the needs of the members...
...Yes, our present day eating and drinking habits are at the bottom of the nation's poor health in spite of all the clamor in word and picture which the advertisers parade in front of the unwary...
...Fast's convictions to follow in his footsteps...
...This is hardly the way to encourage others of Mr...
...Fast had been through a purgatory of his own...
...that can only enter the lives of gifted men and women who, throughout their lives, "recoil from noblest resolution" weakly unable or unwilling to make the sacrifices imposed upon those who unreservedly dedicate themselves to the service of their fellows...
...We cannot continue to provide arms used for the perpetuation of French colonialism in exchange for bases in North Africa and the preservation of NATO and at the same time pose as the champion of freedom-loving peoples...
...I can think of no other single action that would so shock our present state of vacillating do-nothingness into an acute awareness of what education means today in defense of country...
...Long an admirer of Martin Agronsky, I was frankly surprised at his apparent lack of understanding and self-righteous approach...
...Dorsey M. Roth Ft...
...In this respect, America has taken over the mantle the British wore in previous centuries, the role of the right-thinking people...
...The accent is almost invariably on the natural sciences—physics, chemistry, electronics, rocketry—with little mention of the social sciences, now often called the "behavioral sciences...
...in fact, the record is too clear for any denial to stand...
...It follows that our most urgent need for the long run, and quite possibly for the short run too, is more and better trained social scientists...
...When, Mr...
...It is most doubtful that this large slush fund was honestly used to promote basic progress for the Guatemalan people, though it did permit the continuation of previous public work projects...
...His cliches are numerous and unfounded...
...Congressional Record, Appendix A1695...
...But where does this policy originate, and how could it be any different...
...I was able with your help to appear fairly knowledgeable on the subject...
...It is agreed too that the United States cannot abruptly lower its guard and must conduct negotiations from a position of strength, requiring a substantial quota of scientists skilled in weaponry...
...It is widely agreed that nuclear warfare has become unthinkable, and that expert negotiation is the only way to save civilization, if not the human race itself...
...Nearly all protective labor legislation, including antidiscrimination laws, was wiped out, and new anti-labor decrees put into effect...
...These skills belong in the province of the social sciences, including the communication experts, the social psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, economists, demographers, political scientists, and others...
...The same "it-can't-be-true" attitude pervaded the State Department's official statement, which benignly expressed the hope that the "two nations will find a means of reconciling their differences...
...Why should we think, and make him feel, that his search and failure were any more disgraceful than those of his many searching brothers...
...Du Bois on his 90th birthday...
...Erskine College Due West, S. C...
...One cannot move in labor circles and be unaffected by the lift this affirmation and the Ethical Codes and their continued enforcement have given us all...
...Eby's 'Perfectionism' Dear Sirs: From the groves of academic irresponsibility, Kermit Eby, in his April issue article in The Progressive, "What Labor Needs," now preaches perfectionist ideals and methods for trade union leaders...
...Arnold S. Zander International President American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employes AFL-CIO Washington, D.C...
...The situation, however, is hardly as simple as Eby presents to readers of The Progressive...
...Now, immediately, the West should make a similar renunciation, perhaps with shame that we were not the first to do so...
...His article lacks a sense of events of these last ten years, THE PEOPLE'S FORUM If particularly since merger...
...This is our chance...
...In most unions there are no obstacles to membership control...
...Don Snider Dixon, 111...
...And again in the same editorial: "None of us in this country can believe that the bombers and fighters that came over Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef truly represented the desires of the people of France or the policies of the present French government...
...A grown man needs brothers, not a father...
...What makes the article "much ado about nothing" is your singling out this man's story as being so newsworthy...
...But to rule out re-election of officers would be likely to soften up a union representative to accept a permanent job with the employer, and the union would be administered by its appointed staff members...
...After the first killings without trial, the method used was that of jailing and forced exile...
...Some of us in labor union education hope that we can re-dedicate ourselves to the task of replacing in the minds of union members and leaders a "more-and-more" philosophy (with few qualms about the means employed to attain it) with an increasing emphasis upon social unionism and its already considerable "involvement of public issues" and community welfare...
...As a confession of bitter and despairing disillusionment, from a great man in search of love, it elicits a feeling of deep compassion and helplessness, for Mr...
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