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 Vol. 047 Issue 008 (August 1 1983)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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Editors
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LETTERS to the Editor Readers' Views on Free Speech for the Klan Congratulations to The Progressive for running the Rod Davis-Nat Hentoff debate on the Ku Klux Klan and the First Amendment (July...
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Comments
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Is Labor's Cause Lost? Fifty years ago, in the dismal doldrums of the Great Depression, American workers revived a dormant labor movement and began to forge what would become a mighty force. With...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT It's a Big, Big Country Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger says one reason for continued U.S. aid to El Salvador is that it "is on the mainland of the United States, and we do have a...
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Reflection
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Johns, Bryan
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REFLECTIONS Bryan Johns Sixty Seconds Over Moscow Ifinished calculating the sun line and plotted it. Japan, here we come. As I put away the sextant, I glanced at the instrument panel and...
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Datelines
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al., K. Sullivan et
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Why Scientists Step Out STANFORD, CALIFORNIA "Welcome to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, operated by Stanford University for the Department of Energy," proclaims a wooden sign at the main...
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Lordstown: Yesterday's Rebels are Running scared
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JUNKERMAN, JOHN
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Labors Uphill Struggle BY JOHN JUNKERMAN Lordstown: Yesterday's Rebels Are Running Scared The change in attitude was astounding. Last October, United Auto Workers local president Rudy Gasparek...
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When the Robots Punch In
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Turner, Steve
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Labor's Uphill Struggle BY STEVE TURNER When the Robots Punch In Almost everything the mass media have told you about the robot revolution is false: The American workplace will not soon resemble...
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Rank and File Blues
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Labor's Uphill Struggle BY MATTHEW ROTHSCHILD Rank-and-File Blues No leverage with the company, no clout with the union o matter how big the union is, you can get screwed," says a red-bearded...
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Will Unions Work for Women?
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al., Richard moore et
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Uphill Struggle BY RICHARD MOORE AND ELIZABETH MARSIS Will Unions Work for Women? One January evening in 1935, two women walked into the grand ballroom of New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel,...
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Hospital Workers on the Critical List
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French, Kimberly
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Labor's UphilL Struggle BY KIMBERLY FRENCH Hospital Workers on the Critical List Hopes were running high after the meeting in a Boston church. More than 100 workers from Massachusetts General...
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Hard Organizing in Sunbelt City
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Moberg, David
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Labor's Uphill Struggle BY DAVID MOBERG Hard Organizing in Sunbelt City As much as the forests of oil refineries and the glittering office buildings, the Astrodome is a symbol of booming...
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The Lost Constituency
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Hill, Herbert
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Labors Uphill Struggle BY HERBERT HILL The Lost Constituency Twenty years ago, the United States experienced a new national consensus on the issue of minority rights. The high point of that...
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Film
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Seitz, Micheal H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz A Disarming Documentary In Our Hands is a feature-length documentary about the massive rally for nuclear disarmament held in New York City on June 12, 1982. Though it stands...
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Indigenious Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC , Nat Hentoff Bill Evans: A Totality of Sound Ifirst heard Bill Evans in 1956 when he was playing piano in Tony Scott's combo. A clarinetist, Tony invariably plays and speaks in...
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Statecraft as Soulcraft
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Will, George F.
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BOOKS Beyond Partisan Politics STATECRAFT AS SOULCRAFT by George F. Will Simon and Schuster. 186 pp. $13.95. by John B. Judis It is ironic that conservatives rather than liberals have made the...
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The Great Refusal:Community and Organization in the New Left, 196-1968
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Breines, Wini
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IN THE NEW LEFT, 1962-1968 by Wini Breines J.F. Bergin Publishers (670 Amherst Road, South Hadley, MA 01075). 204 pp. $24.95. The New Left is not faring well in retrospect. Conservatives and...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly Literate Columnist PIECES OF EIGHT by Sidney J. Harris Houghton Mifflin. 292 pp. $12.95. For years, Sidney Harris has turned out, five days a week, one of the country's most...
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Report Card
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Arditi, Lynn
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REPORT CARD Lynn Arditi National Insecurity MILITARY EXPANSION, ECONOMIC DECLINE by Robert W. DeGrasse Jr. The Council on Economic Priorities, 84 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY...
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Puzzle
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al., Emily Cox et
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T H E P R O G R E S S I V E P U Z Z L E by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Letters to clue answers, when put in the I H 2 E 3 B4 J 5 K appropriately numbered squares, will spell out a quotation....
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The Last Word
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Ollman, Bertell
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THE LAST WORD Bertell Oilman The Name of the Game Among the facts one can learn about small business by opening up almost any economics textbook are the following: You can borrow all you want at...
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