Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vote on Vietnam Group was organized by three members of the Progressive Labor Party, a Marxist-Leninist organization that sides with Peking in the Sino-Soviet rift over coexistence vs. revolution. Although nearly all of their 50 canvassers describe themselves as "independent radicals," the wording of the petition largely reflects PL's philosophy, especially in its appeal to the working class...
...canvassers try to convince the people they approach that the war is imperialistic and that imperialism is not in the interest of American workers. They argue that business, with its "drive to keep access to the cheap labor and resources of Vietnam," is responsible for the war. They often draw an analogy to "runaway shops...
...People up here have a very clear understanding of what runaway shops means," a report by the group reads. "A lot of towns around Boston have been 'depressed areas' for a generation since the textile and leather mills packed up and headed South. Running away to cheap labor of Asia is very understandable to workers around Boston...
Several weeks ago the CNC began canvassing working class areas whch were covered by Vote weeks before. The question came up in a CNC policy meeting whether to establish formal relations with Vote and agree upon a division of labor between the two groups to prevent double canvassing. Walzer, the head of CNC, urged "no relations whatsoever" with Vote and that policy was adopted. He brought up the role of PL in Vote in such a way that many of his own group criticized him severely for red baiting...
...Instead of building power blocs within the system electoral politics people must take over part of the system for themselves," he explained. The point of SDS projects like labor organizing, student power drives, and draft resistance is to give back to people the power to control the decisions that effect their lives...