Sir;...I would love to see you make the argument that unions have contributed to the onset of this depression or its severity... You seem to take for granted what the facts seem to disprove... While the unions had some power, and some membership, and could raise the standard of wages for all, our depressions were slight speed bumps on the avenue of success... It is the defeat of the unions, so that unions could not defend the causes dear and essential to the whole country that we are in the fix we are... Could the unions turn the heads of government to the danger of exporting our jobs and industry??? Could unions point out that our whole market was being ruined by low wages, and being made critical by the substitution of easy credit for fair wages???The unions are one of our canarys in the coal mine... They represented the social, economic, and political health that no society can be without... Does it matter that the capitalist class could destroy the unions; because the country still needs them....It is in the nature of our political system that we need unity to impact the political process...It is a terrible fact, and one likely to lead to our destruction; that the government is out of reach for mere individuals.... The democratic arm of our government has succeeded in limiting representation, and in dividing every district down the middle.. The parties as extra consitutional inertia must be over come before government can respond to the needs of the people...It might well be argued, as I often have, that no union in America would be necessary if the government took its preamble to heart...Unity is one object of government, and no mean unity, but perfect union...Where on earth is that??? It is the object of every army to divide their enemy, to defeat each part in detail... What kind of government leads its people into division???We could more easily live without parties than union, but the unions, because they are not revolutionary unions can no more unite us than the parties... And yet, unions are better than the parties...In upholding the rights of workers they uphold the rights of the essential American....There will always be those who want to live on the produce of the productive... There will always be those who will live off the profit another man makes...If we misplaced all our exploiters there would be more found tomorrow... Parasites are not hard to find; but impossible to lose...Yet, while the rights of the productive people, the workers are guaranteed, the whole success of this nation is guaranteed...We have this great depression because the cushion provided by well paid workers with rights and influence has been lost... Do not worry about unions impeding recovery...You should worry that no recovery will be sustained if we are a ruined market...And we are a ruined market, because the outrageous success of the rich has been made on the destruction of the unions, and on the degradation of the working class.....Thanks...Sweeney