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Letters: Mar. 1, 1982

Labor Blues

To the Editors:

We must guarantee the right of gainful employment for all [Feb. 8]. To the 9.5 million unemployed the freedom to work is more important than other privileges that our society guarantees. Now is the time for a constitutional amendment to assure jobs for everyone.

Theodore W. Johnson Williamstown, Mass.

If we are all to be unemployed and starving, I would rather sink trying to change destiny than wait patiently for the inevitable. We have no choice but to give change a chance. Let's get it over with.

Karen Ann Jakuc Brooklyn...

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