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∂AIL Mr. Patrick Buchanan↓%2New York Times%1
↓229 West 43d St.↓New York, N.Y. 10036∞

Dear Mr. Buchanan:

	I entirely agree with your suggestion that the Republican Party
and conservatives generally should pursue the working class vote, and I
have a specific suggestion:

	The next time the coal miners demand a raise in pay
for underground miners, conservatives should support it.
There are only 150,000 underground coal miners, their productivity
has increased enormously, and the country can well afford
to pay them $100 per day.  We will know their pay has gotten
too high when the miner's union starts demanding that college
graduates stop applying for jobs as miners.

	At one time the main class issue was division of the pie
between labor and capital, and conservatives tended to support
capital.  Now the issue is between labor and capital - on one side,
and people who don't work at all or whose jobs depend on the
people who don't work - on the other.

	Many conservatives have pointed out that this is the way
the sides should line up, but some concrete gestures towards the
working class will make a big difference.

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