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Show An Open Letter To Utah's Congressional Delegates Hon. Elbert D. Thomas Hon. Abe Murdock Hon. Walter K. Granger Hon. J. Will Robinson Esteemed Sirs: I have just completed a survey of public opinion along Main Street and found what I expected to find a thoroughly aroused people weary of the constant threat to the security guaranteed them by the law of the land. The. folks along Main Street are small businessmen, workers, farmers, and ranchers who are sick of strikes and strikers. And they are not hesitant about pointing the finger of condemnation at the individual or group they believe to be responsible for their sense of insecurity. There is a sharp division of opinion along Main Street as to whether a handful of labor bosses or the whole system of organized organ-ized labor has forced the national economy to the brink of chaos. One or the other of the opinions may be wrong, of both may be right. It is not within the province of any man to question the sincerity sin-cerity of these individual views, views that will not be changed by a persuasive tongue. Nor do the beliefs that prevail along Main Street exonorate the federal government and its representatives representa-tives from its full share of the blame in failing to take cognizance of what was happening in and to the ranks of Organized Labor. In this respect the conviction is unanimous. The lethargy of the national Congress and the administration in bringing forth a plan far reaching and just is casting a shadow over industry and labor alike yes, over America. The differences between labor and management are no longer disputes that can be settled equitably between the parties at issue. For as surely as the sun rises in the east the nation today is faced with superimposed super-imposed class warfare. The same warfare that spawned the rotten, poisonous growth of Nazism. Now only an honorable policy fair to every faction and strengthened with the steel which is the . United States Government can halt the progress of this fast developing de-veloping war between two classes of American people. The hopes of the nation are upon its Congress and the eyes of Utah are upon Its Congressional representatives. The people along Main Street, who are a part of this commonweath, implore you to consider what Utah and the rest of the nation will sacrifice if labor-management disputes are permitted to continue along their present chaotic course. Your state asks you to work in the interest of legislation just in its intent yet rigid in its application so that the people of this and other states may know that they will not be used as pawns in a class warfare that threatens to engulf America. ' Respectfully yours, 4 C. I. FretwelL, Editor |