On March 23, the news included yet another attack by the LePage administration in their pro-business/anti-worker campaign.

The latest proposal to remove the mural from the Department of Labor is wrong and dangerous. I recall hearing that those who do not know history are in danger of repeating it.

Would they erase from society all reference to sweatshops, child labor, long hours, extremely low pay, six-day workweeks, no retirement and no health plans? Is that what their goals are?

Do they really want workers to suffer past abuses and indignity? For example, if a worker were accidentally killed on the job, there was nothing, no benefit or provision for his widow and children.

Are we never to learn about all the women represented by Rosie the Riveter? They contributed so much during World War II. Many of them were also early promoters of the liberation of women. I guess in Gov. Paul LePage’s world, women should not be liberated.

My nephew, a history professor in Colorado, commented recently, “Wow. Removing a panel honoring Frances Perkins … we always discuss her in U.S. history.”

Removing the mural is an insult to the artist, Judy Taylor, and to the Maine Arts Commission. It seems to me that the Department of Labor should be allowed to keep the mural.

Although LePage’s spokesman, Dan Demeritt, has said “this is a small thing,” I believe removing the mural is a big thing and a huge mistake.

Nancy Willard, Woodstock