Impressed

To the Editors of The Crimson:

The article in Saturday's Crimson about the McCarthy campaign contained several inaccuracies. First of all, I am not a "disillusioned Carter supporter." I indicated that I had been impressed with Carter's performance when he visited Howard and that he struck me as more intelligent than Mo Udall; but I was never a Carter supporter. In fact, I supported Fred Harris early in the primaries and later worked for Udall during the Massachusetts primary campaign, in part because Harris's prospects looked pretty bleak. Carter was never more than my third or fourth choice for the Democratic nomination, and by the time of the convention, there was no way I was going to vote for Mr. "Ethnic Purity."

Secondly, there is no direct connection between a work-sharing program and the kind of participating democracy radicals like myself advocate. Work sharing simply seems to be the best way to achieve full employment without triggering runaway inflation. It could be argued that work sharing would promote a 'collective spirit' in the working class, instead of pitting unemployed workers against employed workers. On the other hand, one could argue that high unemployment rates feed working-class discontent and thus could promote radical revolutionary consciousness. In short, I favor work sharing, not really as a means of promoting participatory democracy but as a means of alleviating the job insecurity, economic distress, frustration and boredom experienced by many working class people in America today. Jeffrey Holman '78   Coordinator, Harvard Students for McCarthy