VL is about Work (Marcuse and Vineland's Electrican)

[Terrance]

Can we speak of a juncture between the erotic and political dimension In
  and against the deadly efficient organization of the affluent society,
  not only radical protest, but even the attempt to formulate, to
  articulate, to give word to protest assumes a childlike, ridiculous
  immaturity. Thus it is ridiculous and perhaps "logical" that the Free
  Speech Movement at Berkeley terminated in the row caused by the
  appearance  of a sign with the four-letter word. It is perhaps equally
  ridiculous and right to see deeper significance in the buttons worn by
  some of the demonstrators  (among them infants) against the slaughter
in
  Vietnam: MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR.

They now include the representatives of organized labor--correctly so to
  the extent to which employment within the capitalist prosperity
depends
  on the continued defense of the established social order. 
  Can the outcome, for the near future,  be in doubt? 

--Marcuse 



Anti-Communist unions in both the AFL and the CIO cooperated with
government and industry in the hunt for Communists at the workplace. By
1954, 59 of 100 unions barred Communists from holding office, 41
included supporters in the ban, and 40 barred Communists from
membership. 

By the time the CIO merged with the AFL in 1955, nearly 200,000
trade-union leaders from some 250 unions had formally sworn that they
did not belong to the Communist Party or believe in communism. The
American labor movement emerged as unquestionably the most conservative
in the world. 

see David Caute, The great Fear: The Anti-Communism Purge Under Truman
and Eisenhower (NY: Simon and Shuster, 1978), pp. 349-350