Seth Ackerman wrote:
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> >the US in the 1920s
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> Here's what David Montgomery says about coal miners in the 1910's:
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> > Their bulwark - almost their secular church - was the union. No other
> > AFL union of the 1910s evoked such loyalty from members, such fervent
> > responses to strike calls from miners who were not members, such
> > rank-and-file fury at leaders' misdeeds, such factionalism, or such a
> > blend of locally directed struggle with conviction that outside the
> > international union there was no salvation as did the UMWA....It was
> > the great prestige of this giant union that made it the touchstone of
> > Socialist hopes.
I'm afraid that union-consciousness (even unto death) bears no _necessary_ relationship to class consciousness.
Some of the strongest unions in the u.s. are made up 100% of scabs -- the prison guards.
Carrol
Carrol