atd - Webb's little candle

[alice wellintown]

>
> There was one very interesting connection between organized labor and the
> Soviet Union. .  Before Pearl Harbor the American war build up was still
> controversial.  Many thought the U.S.  ought to keep clear of the whole
> European mess.  Not organized labor however.  After Germany invaded Russia
> in 1941, Labor stood strongly behind FDR's effort to prepare the U.S. to
> eventually enter the war.  Not saying this was all due to "the worker's
>  paradise myth."  But there WAS much good will.  The American war effort
> changed everything for American workers.  Even teen age kids like me. I
> actually became a union member in order to work swing shift at Douglas El
> Segundo.

And, by 1942 everyone was a friend of the Soviet Union; to be
anti-communist in 1942 was to be pro Nazi.  But the Unions were
splitting up from the inside. Even the Cold War madness was conducted
from the inside. Brothers turned on brothers. Betrayal! This is the
theme.