VLVL page 291 Hub's Turn too

[Mike Weaver]

The little Terra:

>A baby bib for you:
>
>http://www.booksunderreview.com/Computers/Internet/Abuse/Spam/Blacklists/

The book under review:
Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds & Trade
                      Unionists. By Gerald Horne. (Austin: University of 
Texas Press, 2001)

Those are interesting links you post,  pity about the snotty sneers that 
cum with them.

The union struggles in 40s Hollywood come up later in Vineland (p 289-91). 
I decided not to cover that when looking at Chapter 6  because I didn't 
want to trespass on someone else's patch and I thought the period on which 
the focus fell (p81/82) was that of the second HUAC hearings
"her parents liked to proceed backwards...in particular the fifties".
I still haven't found any account that specifically covers the situation of 
the radical background workers in that era.

To answer your assertion:
Frenesi's betrayal is in a completely different league with Hub's decision 
to join the IATSE. There's a world of difference between his self described 
'shameful peace' and her decision to work for Brock.
Rob just described her work as helping 'rat out corrupt men'. On page 72 
the original motive for the choice of targets is described as 'national 
interest', while over time the motive has become something 'less luminous'. 
This all suggests her work starts off with a political basis and ends up 
part of Agency power playing. So she has been actively betraying her former 
allies while he has, like so many radicals faced with a choice between 
hunger and surrender, gone back to work within the system he has fought to 
overthrow.
His shame will have, rightly, faded far far more quickly than her guilt.


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