atd - Webb's little candle

[Michael Bailey]

mistakes were made

but the labor movement is responsible for a lot of good

thank you all you gompers cigar-chompers, overpass battlers,
picketers, pamphleteers, and bless the labor temples (are there any
left?) thank you for my holiday pay today and thank you for my
vacation days and my health insurance

thank you honest and concerned union functionaries who didn't and
don't affiliate with the mob or embezzle or
discriminate; thank you who resist oppression and organize and come up
with nifty logos and resist the temptation to oversimplify, to give
up, to write the other side off,

for those who stooped like Webb to violence may you come to see the
error of your ways
for those like Vibe who failed to realize that greed is really not
good really really not good, may you have a change of heart...

solidarity forever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYWiUErA9Kw

for those like Lenin and Mother Superior who jumped the gun, that
other Labor Day in May celebrates your vision, clotted in memory with
streets full of tanks - let us address our Marx and improve on his
vision till it can be implemented sans bloodshed