Pynchon: Union Man

[jroca at gallonlaw.com]

Jules sez:

But I am very firmly a union man. My father
defended the organizers of the Laundry Workers Union with his pistol and
fist during the labor wars of the '30s.
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Labor stuff seems to slightly interest Pynchon.  _V._ has the great story 
about the Union business agent and the alligator hunting crew.  And 
Vineland, of course, has some beautiful and touching minor segues into 
Wobbly lore and the IATSE (ie, International Alliance of Theatrical and 
Stage Employees) Hollywood battles.  I think that Gravity's Rainbow also 
has some very minor anti-union rhetoric...belive it was the conversation 
between Slothrop's mother and Joe Kenedy.  Can anyone verify this?

Tribe