On Mar 31, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Carl Remick wrote:
> Gee, if only AFL founder Samuel Gompers had known that the "win/
> win" POV is the key to sucess, he might have been an effective
> labor advocate. It's a pity he was mired in an adversarial frame
> of mind reflected by comments like:
>
> * "We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want
> more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have
> received the results of our labor."
>
> * "It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common
> interests."
I only just recently learned that Gompers was a Marxist of some sort before he left Britain for the U.S. It was in the U.S. that he discovered that national health insurance would emasculate the American working class.
Doug