Trade workers hurt by strike

The elite class of Writers Guild members is marching the picket lines. They are pleading poverty and asking the trade union members to join them in solidarity. One of these privileged guild members, at base pay, makes five times the money a trade worker earns. When they come on the sets, we workers are hard-pressed to even get a hello and now they would like us to lose our homes and savings. I as a trade unionist find myself hard-pressed to honor them, though I am sympathetic in most ways to what they’re asking; I know they would not hesitate to cross my picket line, especially when they put on the producer and director hats.

“Put the Picket Line to Good Use, Folks” [by Mary McNamara, Nov. 9] referred to the “viewers” being deprived because of the strike. Maybe we could all start reading books again, starting with Sinclair Lewis’ “Dodsworth.”

Johnny Lieberman

Los Angeles