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TRUMAN, HARRY S., PRESIDENT. TYPED LETTER SIGNED ("HARRY") WITH THREE-WORD AUTOGRAPH POSTSCRIPT AS SENATOR, TO EDWARD D. MCKIM OF OMAHA, WASHINGTON, D.C., 22 NOVEMBER 1941. 1 PAGE, 4TO, ON SENATE STATIONERY.
TRUMAN ON THE "FRANKENSTEIN" OF ORGANIZED LABOR: "THE ONLY LANGUAGE MR. [JOHN L.] LEWIS CAN UNDERSTAND IS A PICK-HANDLE, AND THAT IS WHAT OUGHT TO BE USED ON HIM"
After offering condolences for a death in McKim's family, and commenting on crops and cattle prices, Truman excoriates organized labor: "You are just as right as you can be about the labor situation. Our administration -- and I say 'our' advisedly -- has built a Frankenstein at the other end of the economic scale, just as bad as the one that Harding and Mellon built up at the top of the scale. It is going to take ten or fifteen years to get a readjustment on a right basis, when that readjustment could have been obtained just as easily if power hadn't been concentrated in the hands of a few men who handle these sheep who make up labor unions.
"There isn't any difference in the manner in which John L. Lewis is trying to overturn the Government and the manner in which the New York bankers tried to do it in the 1920's. We got the banking situation cleaned up, and now we have a worse one on our hands. The only language Mr. Lewis can understand is a pick-handle, and that is what ought to be used on him...."
TRUMAN ON THE "FRANKENSTEIN" OF ORGANIZED LABOR: "THE ONLY LANGUAGE MR. [JOHN L.] LEWIS CAN UNDERSTAND IS A PICK-HANDLE, AND THAT IS WHAT OUGHT TO BE USED ON HIM"
After offering condolences for a death in McKim's family, and commenting on crops and cattle prices, Truman excoriates organized labor: "You are just as right as you can be about the labor situation. Our administration -- and I say 'our' advisedly -- has built a Frankenstein at the other end of the economic scale, just as bad as the one that Harding and Mellon built up at the top of the scale. It is going to take ten or fifteen years to get a readjustment on a right basis, when that readjustment could have been obtained just as easily if power hadn't been concentrated in the hands of a few men who handle these sheep who make up labor unions.
"There isn't any difference in the manner in which John L. Lewis is trying to overturn the Government and the manner in which the New York bankers tried to do it in the 1920's. We got the banking situation cleaned up, and now we have a worse one on our hands. The only language Mr. Lewis can understand is a pick-handle, and that is what ought to be used on him...."