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Show " . No Federal Unions. It is not probable that the efforts of Representa-. Representa-. tive Hearst to create sympathy for the discharged letter-carriers adjudged guilty by their superiors of too much political activity, by asking for an investigation investi-gation into the matter by Congress will have much effect.- Congress will . hardly reinstate the discharged dis-charged men, nor will it censure the Postoffice department de-partment for removing them. . . Some may think jtha't Cunningham'and other carriers car-riers who were removed were denied their rights as citizens by. the action of the department, but there is little reason for looking at the question in. that light. The men were not working as individuals in . , . attempting to secure higher salaries, but as officials of organizations. They threatened to use the power of those organizations againW members of Congress . who did not see fit to support the demands of the carriers for increased pay. The right of the carriers to increased compensation compensa-tion doea not enter into tlje question Undoubtedly ' they are underpaid, the rural carriers especially, but Congress will treat them with due consideration if tliey present their case in the. proper, manner. There, are plenty of Congressmen, whose sense of justice is strong enough to. cause them to introduce and champion cham-pion bills for the relief of the carriers, and we be- lieve a majority would vote for such measures provided pro-vided the carriers did not damn themselves by headstrong and arrogant methods. For carriers to organize and hold their organization organiza-tion as a club over the-head of any public man who .did not support their demands is wrong in principle .and practice. Imagine a union of postmasters or of United States Commissioners! It would be just 'as reasonable as a union of carriers. ." j Federal employees must not unite to coerce any- body. Such organization is un-American and should ; be suppressed. The carriers have the right as citizens citi-zens to go to Congressmen and ask them to advo-cate advo-cate higher salaries, but they have no right to make demands as an organized body. We believe the Postoffice department acted wisely in removing the leading spirits of the movement from their positions and we think Congress will sensibly ignore Mr. Hearst's efforts to make the matter an issue. |