Migration, Etc. (was Re: Wen Ho Lee Support)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Hi Doug:
>>Steelworkers and other mass production workers were once predominantly new
>>immigrants, no?  (In fact, the ratio of the foreign-born to the native-born
>>workers was much higher in the early decades of this century than now.)
>>But the unions organized them anyway.  That's the spirit we need.
>
>Lots of unionists agree with you, or profess to agree with you. The
>AFL-CIO didn't make Linda Chavez-Thompson secretary-treasurer for
>nothing. They're not 100% troglodytes like they used to be - just
>maybe 50% now. This is progress, no?

Yes.  The question is how we move forward from the 50% position.  A good
topic for LBO-talk, no?

Yoshie