Labor Law Reform

[Tom Lehman]

Dear Charles,
A year or so ago an educator at a southern school wrote a big book about
Walter Reuther.  In the book he went on and on about how Reuther's main
rival for leadership of the UAW was a "communist".  Well, I did a little
research including making inquiries of some of my ancient and highly
reliable resources.  A couple of the responses I got were,"that's news
to us" and "we didn't know that."  So don't believe everything you read
in books.

Personally, I am sympathetic to Reuther, although his critiscism of
others was in most cases somthing like " the pot calling the kettle
black", and this probably did more damage and turned more people off
than anything else to participation in the labor movement and the old
CIO.

I would encourage you to talk to some of the old timers in a gentle and
non-threatening way and you will come to the conclusion that the era
should be called the era of the "BLOWHARD".
Sincerely,
Tom

Charles Brown wrote:


> Tom,
>
> Thanks for the reference. However,
> didn't the percentage of unionized work
> force begin to decline way before 1979 ,
> like about in 1950 or '55 when McCarthyism
> and Reutherism came to prevail ?
>
> Repeal Taft-Hartley !
>
> Charles Brown
>
> >>> Tom Lehman <uswa12 at lorainccc.edu> 08/03 11:28 AM >>>
> Dear Doug and the Left Business Observers,
>
> Here is the story in a nutshell, and, how it relates to some of the
> questions we have been talking about.
>
> Thanks, to the USWA Rapid Response team!
> Sincerely and Fraternally,
> Tom
>
> http://www.uswa.org/rapid/lawreformus.html

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