Friends,
Those who saw Doug's post about his talk at Borders in the World Trade Center
might be interested to know that the 100 or so workers there just voted in favor
of a union by a wide margin. They will now begin to negotiate for a contract. I
had occassion to speak at one of their rallies just before the election. The
union (UFCW) organizers were an amazingly diverse group and so are the workers.
They made me proud to be a part of the labor movement.
Also, I enjoyed Louis's recent post on culture and the left. In addition to Dos
Passos, don't forget James Farrell. Studs Lonigan is good, but his four novel
"Danny O'Neill" sequence is remarkable. The third part "Father and Son" just
blew me away both times I read it.
Michael Yates
>From "LYNN TURGEON, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ECONOMICS, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY,
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Subject: [PEN-L:11101] Secret History of the Korean War
X-Comment: Progressive Economics
In a recent posting, someone suggested that the U.S. government had tried to
stop the publication of I.F. Stone's book in the early 50s. I asked Paul Sweezy
about this because I had never heard about it. He says that he and Leo Huberman
were walking in Central Park one day and accidentally ran into Izzy with his
manuscript under his arm. They decided then and there to publish the book, the
first book by MR Press. Stone had been rejected by numerous mainstream
publishers in the McCarthy-like atmosphere of the time so there was no need for
the U.S. government to intervene. Will the person who made the original posting
write to me directly and give his/her source? Lynn Turgeon
