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41236 UAW convention -- rank: 1000

Michael Eisenscher wrote: >Perhaps my effort at sarcasm eluded you, or you took reference to LBO as >somehow critical. Let me put it bluntly. The article you quoted reflects a >kind of uncritical and vacuous reportage that passes for analysis that is >fairly common in the pages of the PWW when it comes to the subject of labor >or unions (especially union leaders). I merely suggested how a parallel >treatment of political coverage might appear to make that point. I pointed, & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 8 09:28:50 PDT 1998

41237 Dems: the stox party -- rank: 1000

JayHecht at aol.com wrote: >Does this website have annual stock market returns back to the early 19th C? No, but I do. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 8 08:35:03 PDT 1998

41238 UAW convention -- rank: 1000

Michael Eisenscher wrote: >["....The American electorate seemed puzzled why a system deemed to be >superior to any other in the world would continue to produce such blatant >corruption, inequality, scandal, malfeasance, racism, sexism, consumer debt, >homelessness....but they indicated their general confidence in the direction >the country was taking by reelecting Bill Clinton, the leadership of >Congress, and virtually any other incumbent whose palms had been properly > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 8 08:09:13 PDT 1998

41239 UAW convention -- rank: 1000

Herb Kaye writes of the UAW national convention in the July 4 issue of People's Weekly World: "Many delegates and millions of supporters around the country looked to the convention to formulate a program of solidarity with the more than 9,000 UAW members on strike against two General Motors plants in Flint, Michigan. They have been out since early June in defense of their jobs and safe working conditions. Hoever, the convention was never allowed to deal with that struggle. Several proposals ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 7 18:11:59 PDT 1998

41240 HD White and the Soviets -- rank: 1000

Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote: > BTW, by all accounts, Harry Dexter White was a rather >obnoxious individual, whatever his affiliations or >offscreen activities. And, again, most of his overt policy >actions were strongly oriented to cementing US power in the >postwar order. Gee, with agents like that, it's no wonder the Soviets lost the Cold War. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 7 10:28:12 PDT 1998

41241 Indonesia's new food policy -- rank: 1000

Journal of Commerce web edition, July 6, 1998 Food so short in Indonesia that president asks citizens to fast twice a week JAKARTA, Indonesia -- With millions of impoverished people facing food shortages, President B.J. Habibie asked Indonesians to fast twice a week to save badly needed rice. Habibie made the emergency appeal to Indonesia's 200 million people in a nationally televised speech Sunday before celebrations to mark the birthday of Islam's founder, the prophet Muhammad. Indonesia face ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 7 10:07:16 PDT 1998

41242 Dems: the stox party -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >The party with the capital is a good indicator >of the party of capital. Clinton's fundraising >prowess notwithstanding, in the grand scheme of >things one party wages electoral contests with >dollars and the other with people. Really? Aside from union members pressed into phonebanking, just who are these people who support the Dems? Historically, the Reps have actually led the Dems in contributions under $100. And here's what the Center for Responsive Politic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 7 08:24:18 PDT 1998

41243 Racism, politics, science, etc. -- rank: 1000

bautiste at uswest.net wrote: [...] >Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Description: Card for Charles Miller >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" > >Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:vcard.vcf 1 (TEXT/MSWD) (0001DA21) Can you Windows people explain what the hell these damn vcard.vcf attachments are, and, more importantly, how they can be suppressed? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 6 20:21:29 PDT 1998

41244 Dems: the stox party -- rank: 1000

The San Francisco Fed's June 19 Economic Letter <http://www.sf.frb.org/econrsrch/wklyltr/wklyltr98/el98-19.html> compares U.S. stock returns during Republican and Democratic administrations, and finds the Dems have the edge. Though they say the differences aren't statistically significant, they are visually so, whether you start the clock in 1871, 1926, or 1945. Also, the Rep's have the worst single administration, Hoover's, and the Dems the best, Roosevelt's first. Clinton's also one of t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 6 20:06:23 PDT 1998

41245 Leninism -- rank: 1000

[Mark Jones is having computer problems & asked me to forward this] Subject: Re: Leninist-International Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 12:51:12 +0100 From: Mark Jones <Jones_M at netcomuk.co.uk> To: rozov at nsu.ru Nikolai S. Rozov wrote: > my congratulations with the birth of a new brave list and some > question from the country (Russia) that had major happiness of > marriage with the proclaimed ideology Nikolai, We have met before, virtually. But my attempts to engage you in debate ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 6 16:13:30 PDT 1998

41246 Teamsters -- rank: 1000

[a bounced forward from Michael E] Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 22:52:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19980705225417.60b7f278 at pop.igc.org> X-Sender: meisenscher at pop.igc.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: jhess at igc.apc.org (John Hess) (by way of Michael Eisenscher <meisenscher at igc.apc.org>) Subject: Teamster Election Dear Friends, I am going to ask you ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 6 09:10:50 PDT 1998

41247 UAW -- rank: 1000

[also from Michael E] On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Paul Johnston wrote: > Questions re: Outsource Organizing and Labor-Management Strategies at GM > > What can observers close to the scene tell us about union's recent track > record on organizing outsourced sites, domestic and international? also, > about its recent track record on addressing productivity & related > management issues? > > The strike is a fluid & open situation, and there's a lot of room in this > cont ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 5 12:22:48 PDT 1998

41248 Puerto Rico -- rank: 1000

[forwarded by Michael E, but it bounced for technical reasons, like the next] Date: 07/05 4:51 AM Received: 07/05 5:51 AM From: Carlos Quiros, cquiros at compuserve.com To: The Organizer, theorganizer at labornet.org ************ GENERAL STRIKE BY PUERTO RICAN WORKERS ************* ************** Please forward as may be appropiate ************** >>>>>>>>>>> URGENT APPEAL FROM PUERTO RICAN WORKERS <<<<<<<<<&l ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 5 12:22:02 PDT 1998

41249 Union policy and the press -- rank: 1000

Michael Eisenscher wrote: >Mine, Mill is perhaps best remembered as the union featured in "Salt of the >Earth." > >Rather than CIA, I suspect the FBI played a larger role, along with various >other Congressional Subversive-hunting committees and sundry other >government witch-hunters, who worked in league with the leadership of the >USWA, CIO and later the AFL-CIO. This finally inspired me to pick up the book I got in Sudbury, Mine Mill: The History of the Internat ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 5 11:29:10 PDT 1998

41250 Union policy and the press -- rank: 1000

Tom Condit wrote: >In 1901, union president A. Edward Boyce addressed the 9th annual >convention of the Western Federation of Miners. He called on the >union to alter its constitution to add socialism to its goals When I was up in Sudbury, Ontario (nickel-mining country) in March, I was told about how the WFM's heir, the militant Mine Mill Workers union was targeted for destruction during the 1950s. The agents of destruction were the United Steelworkers of America, the Catholic Church, ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 5 09:14:53 PDT 1998