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>...After Frank spoke, it was the crowd's turn to respond. First up and roaring
to take a shot at me was Fred Hirsch, from Plumbers Local 393 in San Jose. A
large man with a deep voice, Hirsch sported a pin with a portrait of Paul
Robeson on it, the famous African-American entertainer and renowned defender of
Soviet Communism. Hirsch rose from his seat, waved his arms about, and in a
thundering voice called my paper "bulls—!" Most folks in the audience applauded
these kind words. Hirsch went on to say that Meany was a racist, that Lovestone
was crazy, that the CPUSA was good, and that I was an "idiot."
The historians in the crowd agreed. John Holmes, a UC Berkeley grad student, charged that my paper sounded like it came out of McCarthy's mouth. (A few weeks later, Holmes wrote—for an online labor-history discussion—that "getting rid of the stinking corpse of Stalinism was a wonderful thing—ideologically speaking. But it was also, from the standpoint of the working classes of that part of the world, obviously and almost inarguably a colossal disaster.") Ellen Schrecker sat in the front row and did not look happy. Another woman commented on how rude I was, how wrong I was, and how I will make a terrible teacher.
In response, I conceded that many AFL unions did, in fact, bar blacks from membership, but that Meany himself was certainly no racist, and that his AFL- CIO offered crucial support for both the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. More importantly, I asked the audience what was so crazy about opposing a government that brutalized and killed millions upon millions of its own citizens. "We must," I said, "understand this basic fact if we are ever going to understand anti-Communism."
Nobody cared. I was just wrong. Anti-Communism was bad. "Lets us always remember," Frank commented again, "what McCarthy and so many other anti- Communists did to so many innocent people . . . how their lives were ruined and destroyed, and how American politics was corrupted in the process."
After two hours, my moment in the limelight was over. I was, to say the least, stunned and looked forward to leaving the conference and touring San Francisco.
As I gathered my belongings, one of my friends walked up to me and grinned. "These folks," she urged, "need to spend more time in the real world. They seem so out of touch."...
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