Mr Muldoon’s report card
Sir, — The most meticulous scrutiny of L. J. Stevens’s letter (April 15) will fail to find one argument to counter my contention that it would be folly on the workers’ part to win wage increases on condition that they increased production. He can resort only to a gratuitous slur on workers, e.g.: “The Marxist expert falsely presumes that before seeking wage increases productive effort has been achieved to gain existing wages.” Falsely presumes? Can L. J. Stevens prove what amounts to nothing more than a brash assertion? His animosity towards workers further expresses itself in describing the strike as “industrial blackmail.” Withholding their labour is the timehonoured way that workers fight for their rights in the class struggles between labour and capital. Inflation is not the workers’ fault, but when it saps their wages’ buying power, they have the duty to take action to re-< store it. — Yours, etc., M. CREEL. April 15, 1980.
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