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Dear Charles,
<BR>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.
<P>Personally, I am sympathetic to Reuther, although his critiscism of
others was in most cases somthing like<B> " the pot calling the kettle
black",</B> and this probably did more damage and turned more people off
than anything else to participation in the labor movement and the old CIO.
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<P>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 <B>era of the "BLOWHARD".</B>
<BR>Sincerely,
<BR>Tom
<P>Charles Brown wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>Tom,
<P>Thanks for the reference. However,
<BR>didn't the percentage of unionized work
<BR>force begin to decline way before 1979 ,
<BR>like about in 1950 or '55 when McCarthyism
<BR>and Reutherism came to prevail ?
<P>Repeal Taft-Hartley !
<P>Charles Brown
<P>>>> Tom Lehman <uswa12@lorainccc.edu> 08/03 11:28 AM >>>
<BR>Dear Doug and the Left Business Observers,
<P>Here is the story in a nutshell, and, how it relates to some of the
<BR>questions we have been talking about.
<P>Thanks, to the USWA Rapid Response team!
<BR>Sincerely and Fraternally,
<BR>Tom
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