Chuck Frederick center
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:47 AM,
Chuck Frederick <cfrederick@duluthnews.com> wrote:
Hello Mr. Maki. Again, it was nice chatting with you yesterday. I have had the opportunity to speak with my colleague here at the News Tribune and have come to the decision not to publish letters from you because of your intentional violation of our rule for exclusivity, among other concerns. All of our rules and requests related to letters to the editor and other submissions are published daily on the Opinion page and are posted permanently at duluthnewstribune.com. Please know this decision was not an easy one. This is not an action we take lightly or often.
My sincerest regrets,
Chuck Frederick
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Chuck Frederick
Chuck Frederick
Editorial Page Editor
Duluth News Tribune
424 W. First St.
Duluth MN 55802
Ken Browall, Publisher, Duluth News Tribune
My response:
From: Alan Maki
Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: my regrets
To: Chuck Frederick
Cc: Ken Browall
Mr. Frederick,
What are your "other concerns?"
Sounds like blacklisting to me.
Oh, well; nothing new with blacklisting in Minnesota, is there?
Let me assure you I do not take your undemocratic actions "lightly," either.
It is no wonder so many people view the Duluth News Tribune as a mouthpiece for the bankers and mining companies and the rest of the 1%.
I will simply make a trip to Duluth and pass out what I wrote together with your communications as a leaflet headlined: "The Duluth News Tribune refused to publish these "Letters to the Editor;" Why?"
You have excuse after excuse for not publishing my "Letters to the Editor" and now you stoop to "other concerns" without specifics.
First you refused to publish this "Letter" citing it wasn't "exclusive," when it was:
And now you refuse to publish this "Letter" for "other reasons," neither defined nor specified:
I find it very interesting that the Duluth News Tribune, at the time, did the dirty work for the mining companies in opposing the "Full Employment Act of 1945" with a vicious anti-worker, anti-union, anti-Communist attack supporting Wall Street back then and you support Wall Street today... hence your blacklist. You and the Duluth News Tribune carry on a dirty "tradition" of the worst kind of yellow journalism and then you have the gall to talk about how this country is the great bastion of democracy.
The people you are punishing is your readers because it is your readers who have never heard in over 75 years any mention in your newspaper of the need to make politicians legislatively responsible for full employment after they demagogically talk about "jobs, jobs, jobs" to get the votes of working people to get elected and then turn their backs on working people ignoring their promise of jobs once elected with not a peep of protest coming from the Duluth News Tribune.
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Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: my regrets
To: Chuck Frederick
Cc: Ken Browall
Mr. Frederick,
What are your "other concerns?"
Sounds like blacklisting to me.
Oh, well; nothing new with blacklisting in Minnesota, is there?
Let me assure you I do not take your undemocratic actions "lightly," either.
It is no wonder so many people view the Duluth News Tribune as a mouthpiece for the bankers and mining companies and the rest of the 1%.
I will simply make a trip to Duluth and pass out what I wrote together with your communications as a leaflet headlined: "The Duluth News Tribune refused to publish these "Letters to the Editor;" Why?"
You have excuse after excuse for not publishing my "Letters to the Editor" and now you stoop to "other concerns" without specifics.
First you refused to publish this "Letter" citing it wasn't "exclusive," when it was:
Once again with President Barack Obama's State of the Union Speech we got another politician hypocritically talking about "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs."
If just one job was created every time some politician opened their mouth and started talking about "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs" we wouldn't have any unemployment in this country and everyone who wanted to work would have a decent, living wage job.
So, what is the main obstacle to full employment? Accountability from the very politicians who mouth the words "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs" whenever they want to get elected, re-elected or want thunderous applause then go about their business forgetting about jobs as they go looking for their next bribe from a Wall Street lobbyist who views unemployment as the way to keep all wages down which pushes profits up.
What we need in this country is a real "Full Employment Act" which mandates--- by legislation and law--- that the President and the United States Congress must maintain full employment as part of their responsibility to the American people.
What good is a government that gets us into war after war but can't even assure full employment for the very people it taxes?
Wars cause government debt and deficits; peace and full employment eliminate debts and deficits.
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Alan L. MakiDirector of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council
58891 County Road 13
Warroad, Minnesota 56763
Phone: 218-386-2432Cell: 651-587-5541
Primary E-mail: amaki000@centurytel.netE-mail: alan.maki1951mn@gmail. com
Blog: http://thepodunkblog.blogspot.com/
And now you refuse to publish this "Letter" for "other reasons," neither defined nor specified:
Every politician talks about "jobs, jobs, jobs."
In 1945, populist Democratic Congressman, Wright Patman, introduced the "Full Employment Act of 1945" which passed the U.S. Senate by a wide margin; garnering support from both Democrats and Republicans.
This Act would have required the President and the Congress to maintain real full employment; everyone who wanted to work would have a job even if it took the United States government working with local, county and state governments to put people to work on government funded projects.
It was Patman's opinion that if the government was maintaining full employment putting people to work on jobs required to improve the lives of people the government would be less inclined to become involved in a costly arms race which was already beginning to emerge in the aftermath of World War II and foreign interventions would not be engaged in so lightly because costs involved would jeopardize full employment.
Congressman Patman understood, and history has proven him correct, no government can fund militarism, interventions, military bases dotting the globe and wars while maintaining a government with the purpose of improving the lives and livelihoods of its people.
Today, more than ever--- with some fifteen million people unemployed--- we need to hold politicians accountable for full employment. It will take a full employment act similar to the "Full Employment Act of 1945" requiring the government to maintain full employment as part of its legislatively mandated responsibility.
The next time you hear a politician talking about "jobs, jobs, jobs" ask that politician if they are prepared to support a real full employment act making providing jobs the government's responsibility.
Wall Street ganged up on members of Congress to defeat the "Full Employment Act of 1945" because Wall Street investors derive super-profits from large numbers of workers being unemployed because this huge pool of unemployed people drives all wages down; lower wages means more profits.
Militarism and wars are killing our jobs the same way these wars kill people. Workers without jobs are going to be poor.
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Alan L. MakiDirector of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council
58891 County Road 13
Warroad, Minnesota 56763
Phone: 218-386-2432Cell: 651-587-5541
Primary E-mail: amaki000@centurytel.net
E-mail: alan.maki1951mn@gmail.com
Blog: http://thepodunkblog.blogspot.com/
I find it very interesting that the Duluth News Tribune, at the time, did the dirty work for the mining companies in opposing the "Full Employment Act of 1945" with a vicious anti-worker, anti-union, anti-Communist attack supporting Wall Street back then and you support Wall Street today... hence your blacklist. You and the Duluth News Tribune carry on a dirty "tradition" of the worst kind of yellow journalism and then you have the gall to talk about how this country is the great bastion of democracy.
The people you are punishing is your readers because it is your readers who have never heard in over 75 years any mention in your newspaper of the need to make politicians legislatively responsible for full employment after they demagogically talk about "jobs, jobs, jobs" to get the votes of working people to get elected and then turn their backs on working people ignoring their promise of jobs once elected with not a peep of protest coming from the Duluth News Tribune.
Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council
58891 County Road 13
Warroad, Minnesota 56763
Phone: 218-386-2432
Cell: 651-587-5541
Primary E-mail: amaki000@centurytel.
E-mail: alan.maki1951mn@gmail.