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<b>Embarrassing Moments in the History of Organized Labor:</b>
<p>You get up at a meeting or rally to speak. You make some brilliant
and insightful comments. You clinch your argument with a hard hitting fact
or quote. You sit down. Then it hits you. You have just
quoted the Peoples Weekly World. You then pray that no one asks you
for the source of your quote or fact. This happens all the time...to
all kinds of people.:o)
<p>You are at a rally or public meeting for some good union cause.
You are approached by a newsie hawking one of the various tabloids trying
to rally the workers. The newsie no doubt is honest in his or her
conviction to the cause. My usual answer is to tell the newsie that
I have a lifetime subscription to their tabloid. This works.;o)
If the newsie is a pal; I add the words whether I want it or not.
<p>Tommy
<p>Carl Remick wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>> On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Carrol Cox wrote:
<br>>
<br>> > joining. He fortunately had never read Adorno or been on a maillist
<br>> > with nothing better to do than ask foolish questions.
<br>>
<br>> Which explains exactly why the CP was smashed so easily in
<br>> the Fifties,
<br>> and why Rightwingers to this day ceaselessly attack intellectuals
and
<br>> pointy-heads (and, of course, the Frankfurt School) any
<br>> chance they can,
<br>> right?
<br>>
<br>> -- Dennis
<p>Yes, I think it's a mistake to romanticize this plucky guy hawking the
<br>Daily Worker on a street corner no matter what the weather. Maybe
New
<br>York City is just nastier than Minneapolis, but anyone who has been
here
<br>any length of time gets used to seeing an assortment of cranks at their
<br>habitual postings around town flogging their idées fixes.
No one to my
<br>knowledge has ever said, "Gee, look at those guys with nothing better
to
<br>do than annoy passersby -- they must really have something to
say!"
<p>Carl Remick</blockquote>
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