Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE A dreadful prospect Basking Ridge, N.J. To the Editors: Abigail McCarthy's lament ("Congressional Fatigue Syndrome," August 19] for all those members of Congress who will be...
...Of course labor should begin to organize internationally...
...A study on NAFTA by the U.S...
...JOSEPH D. POLICANO Logic vs...
...More important, the thesis of our article was that unions have to begin to pay less attention to borders (as businesses have) and together bargain with multinational firms...
...We are groping for politicians who share them...
...Roger f. repohl Organizing ain't easy Brooklyn, N.Y...
...If citizens have a low opinion of Congress, it may be because Congress has earned it...
...Referring to the side agreement on labor in NAFTA, Blum and Tanski suggest that President Bill Clinton's inclusion of it in the treaty was a gracious boon...
...Reutz makes the point that until women are part of the decision-making structure of the church there can be no equality in the church...
...The real romantics arc writers like Blum and Tanski who ig29 nore harsh political and economic realities and thus the real cost of this effort...
...BROTHER DONALD FAHRIG, S.M...
...Gerald J. Williams The good old days...
...But the authors fail to make clear the array of forces pitted against any such collaboration...
...Second, we never denied the difficulties in the way of unions organizing across borders, but that does not mean the world's labor movements have done enough of it...
...Blum and Tanski also encourage American labor to collaborate more with Mexican unions...
...Reply to Box 349, Bridgehampton, N.Y...
...Let's hope that the voters will keep these considerations in mind when they are tempted to turn out the veterans in the next election...
...labor, they say, needs to stop singing "solidarity forever" and start organizing across borders...
...Cincinnati, Ohio To the Editors: In Correspondence [June 17], a letter writer claims that a famous comment by Karl Marx is often quoted in incomplete form...
...I hope she understands mine...
...To the Editors: The article on women's ordination by Avery Dulles, S.J...
...But the real romantics in this struggle are not labor organizers working against enormous odds and often at great personal risk...
...DAVID E. DeCOSSE The authors reply: We appreciate Mr...
...called the side agreement "embarrassing...
...But his closing observation that Pope John Paul II's apostolic letter is an occasion to begin building "new relationships between men and women in the church" must be juxtaposed to Father Edward J. Ruetz's letter in the same issue...
...their DNA differs from that in the cells of either parent...
...Authorize Treasury borrowing to pay the interest on the national debt and to fund entitlement programs while refusing either to raise taxes or cut spending...
...In other words, efforts to organize independent and therefore effective international unions confront an array of remarkably powerful interests, backed by the police power of what has been to date a one-party state...
...The quotation may be found in Marx's Critique of Hegel's "Philosophy of the Right," without the added phrase...
...But, as with every change, new problems have emerged...
...Like me, they would consider the planting of a bomb at Hitler's desk a justifiable response to the acts of a mass murderer...
...this is a matter of established fact, not of opinion or interpretation...
...In great measure, it was precisely because of this awareness that labor and others ferociously opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement...
...To the Editors: I understand Abigail McCarthy's anguish upon seeing so many of her friends leaving Congress...
...The reforms created in reaction to the stranglehold some members had on the Congress did open the system to new people not beholden to a party, its leadership, or, most important, its purse...
...BROTHER THOMAS MORE PAGE, C.F.X What did Marx write...
...fax (516) 537-5343...
...To put it succinctly, all of the cells in the developing human result from division of the fertilized ovum...
...11932...
...RICHARD CUMMINGS Unequal dialogue Washington, D.C...
...If we would deem such acts as "justifiable homicide," why isn't the killing of an abortionist, by whose hand hundreds or maybe thousands of human beings have been killed...
...If this is so, and I believe it is, then how is it possible to enter into "new relationships" when women are not considered equals in dialogue with the hierarchical church...
...It's in the chromosomes, which are in the fertilized egg...
...telephone (516) 537-0683...
...He thus graciously has us, in our little way, join other "romantics"—among them Eugene V. Debs, the Reuther brothers, and, to judge by his strongly expressed feelings, Mr...
...But organized labor has long been aware of the need for international organizing in a global economy driven to a great extent by the search for cheap, exploitable, and unorganized workers...
...I would guess that most people in the moderate wing of the anti-abortion movement are not committed to a total ethic of nonviolent resistance...
...Could it be that underlying our professed belief that unborn life is identical to bom life lurks an unthematized sense that there somehow is a qualitative difference that makes the killing of the unborn less hideous a crime than the killing of the born...
...Bede Griffiths, I would appreciate any information regarding his life, including correspondence...
...If they were to witness a person gunning down citizens on the street, they, like me, would consider it morally justified to take out the perpetrator, by killing if necessary...
...on the contrary, reading a few pages preceding and following the "opium" quote, I was rather dismayed by Marx's unrelieved hostility to and dismissiveness toward religion...
...McCarthy quotes Norman Ornstein: "[PJeople are groping for values in the postcold war era...
...WILLIAM H. BURKE Author's query Bridgehampton, N.Y...
...To the Editors: In their article "Workers of the World, Unite" [June 171, Albert A. Blum and Janet M. Tanski incorrectly portray the obstacles to international organization of labor, expecially in relation to Mexico...
...No, sir...
...Set up a comprehensive health-care system for themselves that would be out of reach for many of their constituents...
...DeCosse, however, for the inadvertent words of praise ending his letter, when he called us "romantics...
...But the question I have had to ponder in the wake of this murder is: What if you know that abortion is the killing of a human being, but you are not a pacifist...
...DeCosse himself—who have fought "the array of remarkably powerful interests, backed by the police power...
...It was indeed "embarrassing...
...Without sex...
...Consider that they might: • Exempt themselves from federal laws that regulate labor standards, family and medical leave, occupational safety and health, and discrimination in employment...
...July 15], is vintage material from this superb synthesizer...
...Money is more important than ever to a politician—and most of it is spent on negative, demagogic television advertising...
...In short, a unique, living, sexed individual human being exists from Day One, and to deny that is to indulge in the sort of tortuous sophistry or willful denial employed in a former day to deny "full" humanity to the slaves...
...Office of Technology Assessment noted that only 5 percent of organized Mexican workers were in independent unions...
...Without a soul...
...The old congressional system dominated by party loyalty and seniority (largely Southern) was not the ideal paradigm of government that she imagines...
...ALBERT A. BLUM and JANET M. TANSKI Let's go to the DNA Kalamazoo, Mich...
...life Bronx, N.Y...
...We have our values...
...DeCosse's comments, although we wonder at times where he saw what he said he saw in our article...
...But the side agreement specifically exempts from the treaty's enforcement process the rights to assemble, organize, bargain collectively, and strike—the heart and soul of any effort to create and maintain a union...
...Maybe an ethicist can help me sort out that one...
...It's in the DNA, and will be along in due time...
...Could it be that we do not carry our convictions to their logical conclusion...
...To the Editors: For a biography of the Rev...
...But what alternative is there for unions as markets cease being local or national and become increasingly international...
...It's possible that Marx expanded the comment elsewhere in his writings, but in the work on Hegel I could not find anything resembling what your correspondent quotes...
...Any will do...
...Without a brain...
...Senator Moynihan pointed out that PRI-affiliatcd unions are "instruments of the party" and have "fallen under a form of state control that has no equivalent in the Western Hemisphere...
...From Gary Hart's "follow me" to the routine promulgation of insincere campaign "promises," it appears that lying is part of a successful politician's arsenal...
...No doubt this is the way forward...
...We do thank Mr...
...To the Editors: Sidney Callahan's article on the implications of the recent killing of a Florida abortionist by a radical antiabortion activist ["Killing Kills the Spirit," August 19] was a significant reflection on the power of nonviolent resistance within a consistent life ethic...
...The textbooks are silent, and so should Mr...
...Tomasin, in common with all who think as he does, needs to consult a standard textbook in human embryology...
...Tomasin be, unless his chutzpah is awesome...
...First, we never said or implied that "President Bill Clinton's inclusion of [the NAFTA side-agreement on labor] was a gracious boon...
...Establish a system of political action committees to provide funds for those outrageous campaign costs—committees whose members will have their voices heard and their interests cared for when legislation affecting their enterprises is up for consideration...
...Take care to get their fair share of porkbarrel projects for their districts' colleges, folk museums, research foundations, and the like, so that constituents will be more disposed to vote them in again...
...it should read, the writer said, "Religion is the opium of the people...if the prophetic voice is suppressed...
...It did produce some outstanding legislators and legislation, but many of the important committee chairmen were bitter, prejudiced obstructionists who were able to block progressive programs for generations...
...To the Editors: Abigail McCarthy's lament ("Congressional Fatigue Syndrome," August 19] for all those members of Congress who will be leaving their jobs because of the unwarranted, cynical politician-bashing by the media and the public prompts one to think about the awful things that firstand second-termers might do when they are in charge of the nation...
...No wonder Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y...
...To the Editors: Granting Robert Hoyt's disclaimer (in "Safe, Legal, Rare," July 15) of any desire to argue with John Tomasin's letter of the same date, it is still astonishing that he fails to note, at least in passing, Tomasin's resting of his position on abortion on a glaring and even ludicrous misstatement of fact: "It is quite clear that in the early stages of pregnancy a group of that woman's own developing cells [emphasis added], without a sex, a brain, or a soul, cannot possibly be 'another body.'" Mr...
...Blum and Tanski assume that organized (Continued on page 29) 2. CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 2) labor in the United States is out of touch with the requirements of the new global economy...
...East Hampton, N.Y...
...We realize the obstacles that stand in the way of labor organizations practicing transnational bargaining (which can result, for example, in smaller wage increases for American workers than for Mexican workers...
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