Those too stupid to learn from history are doomed to relive it:
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Labor lost this battle but eventually won the right to organize. Today, the reactionary forces on the right want to deny to some the right to band together and negotiate for wages, benefits and working conditions. The same forces which met head to head in the late 19th Century, in the 30's on the piers in San Francisco and in the 70's in North Carolina (see:
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Norma Rae are at it once again.
Q. Why does the party which lays claim to liberty and freedom want to deprive some citizens of that very right.
A. Greed and the lust for power.