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Milty's Mag Page thirteen _________________________________________ Jack needs is to spend less time in his Philosophy Club and more time among the people of whom he speaks with so much authority. Jack spent a page or so on a fraction of a sentence which I used purely for the sake of rhetoric so to keep the books straight and comply with the rulings of the Federal Communications Commission I'll have to give at least as much space in reply. This Union question doesn't have much business in a science fiction fanmag, I know, but the trouble is, some of you readers who are not as well informed as you might be will read what Jack had to say about unions and think to yourself this guy Speer has always truck me as being pretty intelligent and straight thinking. If this is his opinion concerning unions, then they must be pretty bad things. Most of the time you might be pretty safe in taking Jack's opinion, but unfortunately, in this tremendously important matter Jack blew off his mouth without knowing the slightest thing about what he was speaking. For perhaps the first time, the philosophic and objective Speer gave an opinion on a subject of which he is ignorant. How much do you think an opinion like that is worth? How I do know Speer is ignorant about labor unions? (1) By knowledge of his background and reading matter. (2) by looking at what he wrote in Ramblings. Speer's father is a lawyer, and Jack is preparing to become a lawyer; he identifies himself with the managing class rather than the working class. It is probable that he has never attended a union meeting (other than the insipid government workers' unions) in his life, and has no first hand information as to the philosophy and practice of labor unionism. For second-hand information there can be only his reading. What does he read? The professional newspapers. The professional newspapers which a government agency, the Federal Trade Commission, has shown are controlled by big business. The professional newspapers which have never attempted to tell the other side of the story concerning labor, and which have consistently slanted their contents to suit the advertisers. If Speer's reading is confined to those sources, then it is not merely possible or probable that he is ignorant about labor, and it is certain that he is misinformed. Has Speer read anything which tells the other side? Friday, In Fact, PM, union newspapers? That is for him to say. Suppose we examine Speer's own statements, sentence by sentence, as he is wont to do with the statements of others. "... in view of the fact that organised labor has contributed well over half the violence that has been connected with unionization." In Fact says: "...there are now 50 volumes of LaFollette Committee reports showing that big business men and not labor are generally to blame for all strike violence." This LaFollette report, abbreviated into a book called "The Labor Spy Rocket" (which is in mu bookcase and which Jack is welcome to borrow) shows that one side only being armed (for which big business
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Milty's Mag Page thirteen _________________________________________ Jack needs is to spend less time in his Philosophy Club and more time among the people of whom he speaks with so much authority. Jack spent a page or so on a fraction of a sentence which I used purely for the sake of rhetoric so to keep the books straight and comply with the rulings of the Federal Communications Commission I'll have to give at least as much space in reply. This Union question doesn't have much business in a science fiction fanmag, I know, but the trouble is, some of you readers who are not as well informed as you might be will read what Jack had to say about unions and think to yourself this guy Speer has always truck me as being pretty intelligent and straight thinking. If this is his opinion concerning unions, then they must be pretty bad things. Most of the time you might be pretty safe in taking Jack's opinion, but unfortunately, in this tremendously important matter Jack blew off his mouth without knowing the slightest thing about what he was speaking. For perhaps the first time, the philosophic and objective Speer gave an opinion on a subject of which he is ignorant. How much do you think an opinion like that is worth? How I do know Speer is ignorant about labor unions? (1) By knowledge of his background and reading matter. (2) by looking at what he wrote in Ramblings. Speer's father is a lawyer, and Jack is preparing to become a lawyer; he identifies himself with the managing class rather than the working class. It is probable that he has never attended a union meeting (other than the insipid government workers' unions) in his life, and has no first hand information as to the philosophy and practice of labor unionism. For second-hand information there can be only his reading. What does he read? The professional newspapers. The professional newspapers which a government agency, the Federal Trade Commission, has shown are controlled by big business. The professional newspapers which have never attempted to tell the other side of the story concerning labor, and which have consistently slanted their contents to suit the advertisers. If Speer's reading is confined to those sources, then it is not merely possible or probable that he is ignorant about labor, and it is certain that he is misinformed. Has Speer read anything which tells the other side? Friday, In Fact, PM, union newspapers? That is for him to say. Suppose we examine Speer's own statements, sentence by sentence, as he is wont to do with the statements of others. "... in view of the fact that organised labor has contributed well over half the violence that has been connected with unionization." In Fact says: "...there are now 50 volumes of LaFollette Committee reports showing that big business men and not labor are generally to blame for all strike violence." This LaFollette report, abbreviated into a book called "The Labor Spy Rocket" (which is in mu bookcase and which Jack is welcome to borrow) shows that one side only being armed (for which big business
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