Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-05-19 | Page 6 | What Our Readers Think

I What Our Readers Think I 7 White Whit Collar Worker Scores Avery very Eviction Editor Telegram I wonder if Labor who signed a letter on your editorial page ever took the time to read It Cant Can't Happen Happen Happen Hap Hap- pen Here I suppose not or he wouldn't have defended the president in his obvious overstepping overstepping overstepping over over- stepping of his constitutional authority Mr Roosevelt in recent years has developed tendencies much in the manner of the villain in It Cant Can't Happen Here Remember Remember Remember Re Re- member his attempts to pack the supreme court when the learned justices dared overrule some of ot his pet legisla legislation ion 1 Remember Remember Remember Re Re- member the Roosevelt purge when he campaigned openly against senators and congressmen congress congress- men who dared oppose his rubber rubber rubber rub rub- ber stamp tactics in congress Think these over Labor and check the resemblance in the book The Montgomery Ward invasion invasion invasion inva sion would have set fine with us white collar workers if Mr Roosevelt had been consistent But when has the president thrown John JohnL L. L Lewis out of his office even even when he defied the president the government and everything that we stand for And Lewis has defied the president president president dent and the government for years on th the tho coal issue At a a. time tim when our boys boya overseas were pleading with the president president president dent to send Lewis overseas so that they could deal with him what did the president do 1 Nothing But let Jet a a. business man stand standup standup standup up for his rights right let him demand demand demand de de- de- de mand due process of ot law be brought into p play ay and the president president president dent orders in the troops carlies carries carries car car- ries lies the insurgent from his office office orfice of or- fice and takes over This is the same president who comp compromised com corn p promised with cajoled and pampered pampered pampered pam pam- John L. L Lewis remember remember rememberT ber berT I r wonder if Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt believes fair thinking labor will support such high-handed high dealings White Collar Worker