LETTERS
LETTERS Homer nods What ever happened to Milton Mayer, the professor of English? I see you now have a writer of the same name trying, in the October Progressive, to stand in the shoes of the...
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...No human court has that right...
...The old arguments that labor, foreign competition, and antiquated mills led to the downfall of "steel" in Youngstown hold no water...
...H Prepare petitions...
...Irwin Brownstein Brooklyn, New York Three Nile Island While I agree with you that the Government is lying to me in general, I disagree with your statement that "Three Mile Island is the outgrowth of an inherently dangerous nuclear weapons technology born and nurtured in secrecy...
...I'm personally pleased...
...But he gives himself away when he describes the "immortal words" of Gloucester as having been spoken to Lear...
...These flights avoid large cities to escape the ire of city people...
...Richard L. Craig Grayslake, Illinois Socialism Through many years I have heard and read that Social Security is communism, that the Federal housing program is socialism, that labor unions cause high prices and are also socialistic, that Medicare and Medicaid are socialism...
...So also must be The Progressive...
...Show them how petition drives and campaigning candidates can publicize their many concerns...
...Also, it seems strange to me that some of the more vocal anti-war opponents of the 1960s are not openly speaking out about this intrusion of the military into our supposedly democratic educational system...
...The reason stated was that The Progressive contained "articles on how to make bombs with explicit diagrams and pictures with detailed instructions," and that it therefore presented "a reasonably probable hazard to peace, order, and safety of the institution...
...The steel business is a "heavy" industry that requires a great deal of capital investment...
...This is a religious issue, and the religious leaders had better speak up loud and clear, or else trade in their Bibles for the Big Booby prize...
...The government subsidy for maritime shipping is socialism...
...I consider myself extremely fortunate...
...Then let the grass roots take over...
...Were we not a state, you would be horrified at U.S...
...We protested immediately, of course, and some Wisconsin newspapers engaged in amusing speculation on the possibilities of constructing a hydrogen bomb in a State Prison cell...
...our economy is based on resource exploitation by transnational corporations with little local control...
...Day no doubt recalls that many, many times we in AP struggled and fought, almost always successfully, to support AP's old slogan, "the byline of dependability...
...Tony D'Abbracci Santa Rosa, California Alaska The "Victory in the Wildlands" you described in the July issue was indeed a victory for environmental lobbyists, but it may prove to be a greater defeat for individual liberties and rights...
...Caught in the middle are individual Alaskans, who are becoming "trespassers" on the land some have lived with for years...
...Can it prevent backstage deals or end the careers of intransigent officials...
...We know from the correspondence we receive that these copies are widely circulated and deeply appreciated...
...for his "clarification" piece in the September issue...
...The farmer looks up at a bomber roaring 1,000 feet above his combine and says, "There goes another one of those bastards and I have a hard time getting enough fuel to run my little machines even at $1 a gallon...
...But give him his due: He has effectively, though perhaps regrettably, proved his point that the words of the late Hinky Dink Kenna are, indeed, "immortaler" than those of the foggily remembered late Gloucester...
...Keep up the good work...
...Public-interest organizations divert our efforts from the real problem: If we had a people's independent party we could select and nominate hundreds of unbought candidates to oppose the machine's yes-men...
...their blood and sweat...
...We who live here are watching the U.S...
...Any American who holds life sacred must write his representatives to demand that the Supreme Court be reminded that it hasn't got the right to decide religious issues, such as whether...
...They back up what they say with the sad but solid facts of the history of the past thirty-three years...
...enlist local groups to circulate them...
...Winfteld Fine South St...
...For years now big steel in Youngstown has failed to put back into the industry what it has taken out...
...Forget about organizing, coalitions, fund-raising...
...Finally, it is socialism to engage in war, as in Vietnam, or to provide military equipment to opposing belligerents, at taxpayers' risk or expense, in order to provide private profit for war equipment sellers...
...Even "splitting the vote" is meaningless when big business controls Democratic and Republican officials alike...
...The sky-is-the-limit military budget looks down upon the dust-covered farmer and replies, "You can go to hell...
...The Lens/Ott article needs to be circulated and read as widely as possible...
...Interior Department is pushing hard for Alaskan offshore oil development — an environmental disaster waiting to happen...
...The long debate over Alaska's lands polarized into "environmentalists" versus "developers," with Congress taking one side and the oil, timber, and mining interests the other...
...The guaranteeing by government of repayment of all risk-capital invested in foreign countries is socialism...
...But I have yet to hear from or read in the shyster news media any statements that: ¶The bail-out of large business by government is socialism, as in the case of Lockheed Aircraft, or as proposed in the case of Chrysler...
...Samuel Kauffman Indianapolis, Indiana AP slogan As an Associated Press veteran of forty-odd years, I feel it incumbent upon myself to" express gratitude to Samuel H. Day Jr...
...Life has provided me with new opportunities...
...Every time I went more than ten miles out of the city of Bismarck in any direction, I saw from one to three B52s on low or high-level bombing raids looking for Russians...
...Mere public opinion has no clout...
...The supreme irony is that it fails to meet its goal of preventing the expansion of "communism...
...We have given control of our country to the military-industrial-political machine by allowing it to monopolize the nominations of both major parties...
...Sidney Lens and George Ott have certainly written a revolutionary piece...
...Government as we do...
...Wan a few rallies, with wide publicity...
...you would have as little trust in the U.S...
...Felix B. Wold Royal Oak, Michigan 'Patenting life' What better proof could there be that God is dead in the souls of Americans...
...The bill which passed the U.S...
...If you can help, please contact me at the address below...
...I see you now have a writer of the same name trying, in the October Progressive, to stand in the shoes of the giant...
...Paul, Minnesota (More letters on Page 62) Memo Shortly after the November issue of The Progressive went into the mails, we received a curious communication from the State Prison at Waupun, Wisconsin, ll was a form headed "Notice of Rejection and Non-Delivery of Prison Inmate Correspondence," and it advised us that the magazine was being withheld from a subscriber at that institution...
...My only footnote to the article is to add that Jimmy Carter not only sold out to "big steel" but to "big oil," "big military," and other "big business...
...It has a spotless safety record...
...Each flight consumes at least two tankers of jet fuel...
...The wrong debate' The article by Sidney Lens and George Ott in the October issue, "The Wrong Debate," is the strongest argument I have ever read against the Cold War premises that support the arms race...
...Political action We'll never get nukes off our land until we get the nuclear industry out of our Government...
...Forget defeatist alibis...
...Edward Latessa Birmingham, Alabama Waste in the skies What I saw and heard in two weeks of hunting and combining in North Dakota has convinced me that the Federal Government is certainly not sincere in its propaganda about conserving fuel...
...As a former Youngstown steelworker, 1 can assure you that your insight was both accurate and comprehensive...
...1980 will be crucial...
...Not only does the arms race and its Cold War premises threaten the survival of the human race, it also drains the American people economically, spiritually, intellectually, and socially...
...Now Day seems to have proven the lovable boast all over again...
...Harold R. Hutcheson Sandwich, Massachusetts Steel, blood, sweat I thoroughly enjoyed your coverage of the Youngstown plight ("Must Youngstown Roll Over and Die," October issue...
...Let the people know that responsible representation is within their reach through the all-important power of nomination...
...House overlooks Alaska's most endangered species — the individual...
...Helas...
...But for all my unemployed friends and relatives in Youngstown I can only add, "Jimmy Carter, we will remember...
...Won't some group just start the action...
...Government and the resource conglomerates argue over which should get Alaska's land and resources...
...Peter H. Amann University of Michigan-Dearborn 4901 Evergreen Road Dearborn, Michigan 48128...
...Perhaps, when their children become of school age, we will hear more from them...
...file with state and Federal authorities...
...Allen died in the Southwest about 1960, survived by a young son and a brother in the Chicago area who may have acquired the papers...
...The gentle but sharp professor would have reminded him that Gloucester was speaking to Edmund, not to Lear, and thus saved him the trouble of contributing the spurious, and somewhat less than immortal, phrase "My Lord...
...We'll never get economic democracy until we get political democracy...
...Isn't this the breakthrough we've been seeking...
...A subsidy by government for not growing tobacco or other agricultural products is socialism...
...Brian Rogers State Representative Fairbanks, Alaska The Black Legion For a study of the Black Legion, a terrorist offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1930s, I seek the papers of Ben Allen, left-wing researcher on U.S...
...Alaska has many problems in common with the Third World nations...
...The new parks and wilderness areas will drive out the individual Alaskans who have loved the land, treating it gently, and replace them with the National Park Service — the Federal park development agency devoted primarily to profits for its con-cessionnaires...
...For many years now, The Progressive has made it a practice to provide a free subscription to any prisoner who requested it...
...as the pseudo- Mayer would exclaim...
...It is socialism for the Government to provide refined uranium below cost to the energy industry, which resells it all over the world at a profit for nuclear energy plants and for the proliferation of nuclear weapons...
...I retired from the AP in 1968...
...When will the consumers and rank-and-file citizens of the United States find an honest news dispenser who will, at least, expose both sides of the coin and not just the propaganda of a self-proclaimed sacred section of society...
...It is shameful our public educational system is being infiltrated by military "counselors" and is, in effect, being turned into an arm of the military...
...TPrepare documents...
...Jocelyn Tyler Pacific Grove, California Military education 1 am writing to express my shock and dismay at what I read in Irwin Stark's article, "The Pentagon Goes to School," in the October issue...
...Bob Hayes Martin, Tennessee As a long-time reader and subscriber to The Progressive, I want to tell you that I'm extremely impressed — and shaken — by "The Wrong Debate" in your October issue...
...It is socialism to provide special tax write-offs for big oil and to give tax-exempt status to so-called not-for-profit corporations or foundations which are used to protect or advance the private profit or political purposes of the organizations...
...life is largely chemical" ("Patenting Life," by Ted Howard, in the September issue...
...colonialism...
...Nuclear-produced electric power is the cleanest, safest, and most inexpensive when compared to the alternatives (coal, oil, gas...
...corporate control and investigator for the LaFollette Subcommittee in 1936-37...
...And at the same time the land is being "protected," the U.S...
...In a nutshell of five pages, Lens and Ott put what many commentators, scholars, and historians have been trying to tell us since 1946...
...The warden swiftly had second thoughts and delivered the magazine to our subscriber...
...Henry Coe Lanpher Washington, D.C...
...The guaranteeing of many bank loans by government is socialism...
...Nuclear power plants have very little in common with nuclear weapons save for the fact that both split atoms and use the resulting energy...
...The only true commitment to steel in Youngstown has been that made by the people of Youngstown...
...Price support by government for manufactured or processed or grown products is socialism...
...IFind out for every state the timing and signatures needed to qualify a new party...
Vol. 43 • December 1979 • No. 12
