On Oct 30, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> ...The New Deal was the product in part of a rising and militant
> trade union movement, many of its activists inspired by the example
> of the Russian Revolution...
This is so not true. The New Deal started on March 4 1933 with the Bank Holiday--an act of naked executive power--and was shaped in the next "hundred days." At the time the trade union movement was moribund, the CIO not even a glint in John L's eye. The New Deal was shaped by the Jesse Joneses and Bernard Baruchs, not the Hillmans and Lewises. And the radical threat to FDR came from Dr. Townsend and the great populist Huey Long, not from the sympathizers with Stalin.
Shane Mage
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
Joe Stack (1956-2010)