<HTML>Doug flails out again: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Leo, could you *please* set your mailer to plain text? Didn't I read a piece of yours somewhere recently - some DSA rag perhaps? - arguing that teachers' unions should act more like professional/craft guilds than like working class unions? Is that a better way to build a "left social base"? </BLOCKQUOTE> Sigh. I suppose it would be too much to ask that as you pick yet another in a series of umpteen fights with me, you do it over a contention that bears some relation -- however tangential -- to what I actually wrote and believe. Your description is at best speculation based on a misleading headline which I did not write, but was added by the editor, and not what was said in the piece at all. Is that the way to engage in critical "left" debate? As for the plain text option, I have been going through all of the menus on this new AOL version for hours now, and have yet to find a way to do it. Any help would be gladly appreciated. Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869) Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass --</HTML>