Why the cover for an anti-union group?

At least three times in the past year you have printed letters to the editor from the anti-union organization Employment Policies Institute without allowing someone to rebut their arguments. Their cover that a minimum wage makes it difficult for teens to get jobs is nothing more than a camel's nose in the tent, soon to remove all floors on wages.

We don't need studies to show that without government and labor union forces to maintain a minimum wage, the market will drive down wages to subsistence levels. Any ideological conservative can pick up an autobiography of the industrial barons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries to see how year after year they reduced the wages of their workers. If the workers struck to protest the lower wages, the Pinkerton guards and the police were sent into the factories to bring strikebreakers, generally newly arrived immigrants, to replace the workers.

Shame on the Daily Herald for printing the institute's ideological message, now three times, without revealing who these people are and what they stand for. They should be paying the Herald to print their message, not given free space to spread their distortions.

Tom Teune

Wheaton