Letter from Lou Ehlers to President Harry S. Truman with Attached Note

7269 10 Lou Ehlers, Inc. FORD 407-B 921 WEST FIFTH AVENUE Stul Strike GARY, INDIANA mine GARY 3-9666 E CHICAGO - ESSEX 5-4736 July 23, 1952 Honorable Harry S. Truman President of United States Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. President: On June 19, 1952, I wired you as follows: "Approximately six weeks ago you siezed the steel industry on the grounds that lack of steel would immediately threaten our security and economy. By what inconsistent reasoning are you now permitting the steel strike to exist when you have the Taft-Hartley Act at your disposal? As one who helped vote you to office four years ago, I insist upon an immediate and comprehensive reply." Apparently your inconsistencies are exceeded only by your breech of etiquette. In my wire I asked for an immediate and comprehensive reply. In the newspapers I have noted your being quoted as saying the Taft-Hartley Act provides no solution to the current steel crisis. Surely you recognize this as an inadequate state- ment. In the meantime our business in Gary, Indiana, as are thousands of other businesses, is suffering severe financial losses. Should you fail to respond to this letter, as you have my wire, I can only assume that you have no good reason for failing to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, with the exception that you are fearful that 95% or more of the steel workers in these United States would be willing to accept any one of several of the generous offers made by the steel industry. I shall impatiently await your reply. Yours very truly, LOU EHLERS, INC. L. W. Ehlers President LWE:MP