Labor's love lost?
In a time of its greatest success and its most awesome power, organized labor in this nation stands at its lowest state.
Conceived at the Turn of the Century and matured during the Dirty Thirties, labor unions that encompass everyone from the newspaper reporter to the beer truck driver are the mightiest of all American institutions save God and the federal government.
But the very might of labor has made it far from right.
NOW AT ITS PINNACLE, organized labor has lost its image as the champion of the working man. It has replaced that image of champion with the image of villain—an image that connotes firebombs in the night, sleazy racketeers who hold sway over the law, the courts and the people, and power-hungry men who revel in their ability to paralyze an entire country with a telephone call.
Even the future of organized labor—if it follows its present course—is not pleasant to contemplate.
For to the natural distress of industry and to the silent horror of the consumer, American labor promises us no less than higher food costs, expensive services, fewer newspapers, abolition of most of our maritime import-export market and crippling strikes from the public employees we depend upon to keep working.
AND TO RUB IN the effect of such economic and social rapacity, labor threatens to bring the people to their knees if they do not comply with labor's every demand.
Organized labor, in short, has undergone metamorphosis from a White Knight to a death-dealing octopus more dangerous than the biggest monopoly.
But what the scions of union labor don't realize, however, is that their creation is being prepared for the public guillotine.
And what a misfortune that could be.
AN ANGERED PUBLIC — and they are angry — could unwittingly chop away the hard-won and legitimate gains of labor and cure the present monstrosity with a far worse one.
While punishing the bomb-throwers and the racketeers, the people could do injurious harm to the ordinary working man and his right to organize, to negotiate and to reap just profit from his occupation.
Such a thing could happen to labor unless labor cures its own ills; unless the unions themselves "throw the bums out."
In the name of the very concept of organized labor, let us hope that they do.
UDK Poetry Contest
Dan Austin
One day after it was promised, the poetry submitted by KU undergraduates will be printed on this page. Tomorrow, you will read a cross-section of over 50 entries given to us. Because all the work submitted was good, the UDK is not awarding any "places" to the entries. But because space is limited, we are printing what we think to be some of the best work.
NEW BOOKS
WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE, by Shirley Jackson (Popular, 60 cents; THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, by Shirley Jackson (Popular, 60 cents)—Nothing sweet and lovely in these thrillers, and nothing Gothic and romantic and unbelievable. This woman chills you on a psychological level, and gives you some shocks at the same time. More, too, than ghost stories, even though ghosts are involved in the doings—ghosts and tappings and witchcrafts and nutty heroines and contemptible heroes. Not for the squeamish.
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PROUST'S BINOCULARS, by Roger Shattuck (Vintage, $1.65)—A literary study of "Remembrance of Things Past." The kind of book you read as a key to the main work itself, a book designed for the scholar and not the reader of popular works.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Grad. Physics Collq., 4:30 p.m. Peter Cockburn, KU, 238 Malp.
Student Peace Union Open Meeting. 7:30 p.m. Kansas University
mg. 7:30 p.m. Kansas Union.
Faculty Recital. 8:00 p.m. University String Quartet. Swarthout Recital Hall.
TOMORROW
Synchronized Swimming Club Try-
TOMORROW
Oats, 7:00 p.m. New Robinson Food,
Business, Wives, 7:30 p.m. Meeting
at Business, Wives, 7:30 p.m.
Lutheran Students Assoc. Film, 7:30 p.m. A TIME FOR BURNING, new race question. Forum Room, Union, Showing at 9:00 p.m. if necessary.
Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Dr. James Woelfel, KU. "Nazi Christian Resistance Movement in Nazi Germany," Univ. Lutheran Church.
Fine Arts Honor Recital, 8:00 p.m.
Swarthort Recital Hall.
Daily Kansan editorial page
Monday, March 13, 1967
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"There Seems To Be A Certain Element Of Chance Already"
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