[lbo-talk] Solidarity for Sale: The Nation's Bottom-Feeding Unions

[Gar Lipow]

On 3/10/06, Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >The AFL-CIO threatened to take to the streets if it passed. And
> Congress laughed - knowing that by "take to the street" they meant a
> protest march, and some hot air. If the CIO had still existed, that
> threat would have been scarier. <
>
> huh? the AFL-CIO didn't exist when Taft-Hartley was passed.

Shit. You are right.  The downside of oral history.