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<blockquote data-quote="PiedmontSteward" data-source="post: 1212366" data-attributes="member: 42270"><p>Big businesses railed against Social Security and Medicare when FDR first proposed them, referring to them as a communist conspiracy. I'll tell you what's creepy: the continuing pattern throughout American history of any political gains made by working people being slammed as a communist plot. If red baiting wasn't an effective tool at holding back progress, then it wouldn't have been used so often during the 1920's, the 1930's, the '40's, the 50's, and the '60's. </p><p></p><p>Quite frankly, the so-called "radicals" in the early labor movement were the very ones that brought us many of the gains we have today. When the CIO split from the AFL, it was over "industrial" organizing. AFL Unions (including the Teamsters at the time) did not believe so-called unskilled workers deserved a union. Cornelius Shea, the first Teamsters president, even called unskilled workers "trash." One of the greatest strikes in American history was led by Trotskyites in Teamsters Local 574 -- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_Teamsters_Strike_of_1934" target="_blank">Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PiedmontSteward, post: 1212366, member: 42270"] Big businesses railed against Social Security and Medicare when FDR first proposed them, referring to them as a communist conspiracy. I'll tell you what's creepy: the continuing pattern throughout American history of any political gains made by working people being slammed as a communist plot. If red baiting wasn't an effective tool at holding back progress, then it wouldn't have been used so often during the 1920's, the 1930's, the '40's, the 50's, and the '60's. Quite frankly, the so-called "radicals" in the early labor movement were the very ones that brought us many of the gains we have today. When the CIO split from the AFL, it was over "industrial" organizing. AFL Unions (including the Teamsters at the time) did not believe so-called unskilled workers deserved a union. Cornelius Shea, the first Teamsters president, even called unskilled workers "trash." One of the greatest strikes in American history was led by Trotskyites in Teamsters Local 574 -- [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_Teamsters_Strike_of_1934]Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url]. [/QUOTE]
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