Barkley on WTO, etc

[Rakesh Bhandari]

> Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
> >I don't see how bans on imports produced by non-unionized, terrorized or
> >child labor will improve the conditions of workers.
> How are such bans different from a boycott, an ancient labor tactic 
> (and one highly restricted under U.S. law)?
> Doug 

Well then why not fight all out for the right for such boycotts, along
with secondary strikes,  within the US first--back to the voluntarism of
Gompers in comparison to whom Sweeney is a  girlie man, as the
charismatic star of End of Days would put it.  Secondly, Max has already
admitted that Sweeney's chief concern is not boycotting  these imports now
under crowded Christmas trees but preventing foreign countries
from requiring  employment of local labor, transfer of highest tech as
condition of purchase. This is about the maintainence of a skewed intl
division of labor, not the emancipation of labor. 

Yours, Rakesh