Letter from E. H. Henson to President Harry S. Truman, with Attachment

a Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes of America - Division No. 192 OFFICERS RY. Affiliated with the E. H. HENSON, President and Business Agent AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR G. H. WOOTEN, Vice President CALIFORNIA STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR L. W. MATHEWS, Secretary-Treasure W. DAIGRE, Recording Secretary CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY CALIFORNIA STATE COUNCIL OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD A. A. of S. E. R. & M. C. E. of A. F. V. STAMBAUGH, C. A. DALLAS, E. D. SOWARD SAN FRANCISCO LABOR COUNCIL F. A. RAINEY, C. M. CAVAGNA, F. C. OSBORNE ORCAMIZTO AND THE OFFICERS 1116 ALICE STREET OAKLAND [7] CALIFORNIA Telephone TWINOAKS 5248-5249 to 146 for April 15, 1947 The Honorable Mr. Harry S. Truman President of the United States The White House ONY Washington, D. C. Patrick Dear President Truman: We are enclosing for your worthy consideration, copy of an open letter to our Congressmen, printed in our publication "Wheels", expressing the views of Us Workers first hand, not transmitted through a second or third party. In the opinion of Us Workers, these Medicine Men of the United States in opposing the Principles of Extended and Expanded Social Security Insurance with Medi- cal Care as outlined in the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill (S11 61) are: Preventing Us W orkers and Our Families from getting the Medical and Dental Care needed for Our Good Health. Condemning our Worn Out Workers to continue to Starve, both Mentally and Physically. Preventing the Correction of the Cause of most Strikes. Preventing the Stabilizing of Our Economic and Industrial Production and Distribution. Permitting Communism to spread to the Workers who are Worried about Getting Old or Getting Sick. As the machinery for handling the Extended and Expanded Social Security Insurance is already established,