On the subject of the Bluestone family. The political economist, I believe his name is Barry, made me sick with his after dinner speech some years ago. Since then I have avoided dinners etc. when he is the speaker---even under duress. Sincerely, Tom
Richard Gibson wrote:
> Call the union and offer to help? Still laughing....is this like the time
> many of us in Detroit went to the UAW led newspaper picket lines to assist
> them in stopping production, and the UAW leadership busied themselves with
> breaking the picket lines? Or is this like the time the UAW had a nearly
> third of its membership on strike or layoff, and the leadership busied
> themselves with their own uncontested reelections in Las Vegas? Or is this
> like the time at the Mack Avenue plant take over when the UAW shipped in
> people from all over the country to drag the workers out of the plant? Gag.
>
> The UAW under Yokich is the same authoritarian, anti-democratic, gang of
> hacks with fundamentally the same vision---going back to the days of
> Reuther and Bluestone. Consider the maneuvering to get Bob King out of
> Region I and to replace hime with a Yokich wannabe. Or reconsider the fact
> that the UAW did indeed lead the botched newspaper strike.
>
> Neither the AFL -CIO nor the relatively privileged North American
> industrial working class is likely, in the foreseeable future, to launch a
> struggle to establish the practice and ideas necessary for democratic or
> egalitarian social change. This does not mean the workers never will. It
> does mean they won't soon.
>
> The struggles for justice in the near future will lilely come from youth,
> in schools and out--and others locked out of the industrial working class....
>
> Sisternally,
> best. rich
>
> At 08:37 PM 6/26/98 -0700, you wrote:
> > Dear Doug and the Left Buysiness Observers,
> >It's always easy to blame the union leadership, and, that's the easy way
> >out that a lot of people take when the pressure is on!!! I know you to be
> >a very smart and righteous gentleman Give your union a call and ask them
> >what you can do to help out. Fraternally,
> >Tom
> Rich Gibson
> Director of International Social Studies
> Wayne State University
> College of Education
> Detroit MI 48202
>
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>
> Life travels upward in spirals.
> Those who take pains to search the shadows
> of the past below us, then, can better judge the
> tiny arc up which they climb,
> more surely guess the dim
> curves of the future above them.
>
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