Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine, her family moved from Cincinnati to Chicago, where it was easier for her father, a railroad yards worker, to find employment. "We lived in the Near North Side," she recalled. "At the time of the Second World War, it was the heart of the profascist, racist, anti-labor movement in Chicago. My parents were working people. We were anti-fascist and pro-civil rights. We walked in picket lines. The Communist Party was on our side; when I was 16, I joined...
Like any utopian vision, however, the Communist Party's has its flaws. A key point in its scheme is the insistence upon the re-emergence of labor unions. "It is time," the party platform states, "that workers demand that their leaders cease being water boys for the Democratic and Republican bosses. It is time that workers run for public office and begin to build a political party of their...
...reliance upon unions puts Mrs. Mitchell in an awkward position; for, undeniably, labor will supply a great majority of the Wallace vote in this election. The awkwardness can become schizophrenic. In New York, for example, Albert Shanker has led his powerful teachers' union in a six-week-old strike that is pitting the union directly against the black community of Ocean Hill-Brownsville in Brooklyn...
Despite her optimism, labor unions have shown little sign of being less corrupt than anybody else. The Communist analysis that the black people of the ghettos and the poor white working class are natural allies in fighting the system is sound. And its analysis that the white power structure has used racial antagonism to prevent the formation of such an alliance is also sound. But one wonders whether the Communist slogans of three decades ago are, in fact, the answer for this country...
...speech, she tried to defend the party position that the invasion of Czechoslovakia was "regrettable but necessary." It was easy to see that she was uncomfortable. It was easy to see that she was more interested in black power than in labor unions. Her speech dealt with the "irrelevance of liberalism" to the modern world, but in many ways her communist vision seemed, too, to be irrelevant. Someone asked about Martin Luther King, "He was a tremendous human being," Mrs. Mitchell said sadly. "But I do not accept non-violence as a principle. I am closer to Malcolm...