Labor Day Observations

Edward J. Carlough, president of the Sheet Metal Workers’ International, waxes gleefully on your Editorial Pages over the great strides organized labor has made for the working people in wages, benefits, etc.

Page 1 of The Times on Labor Day has an article on how one town, Aliquippa, Pa., has fared since the major employer, LTV Steel Co., shut down.

The great steel mills in this country have shut down because the exorbitant wage increases won by the labor unions have made them unable to compete with foreign competition.

I wonder if Carlough would like to take credit for that also.

BILL SIMPSON

Palos Verdes Estates