July 22, 1978
(I was 33)
Contract Negotiations
The organizer did all the
real work
but no one called it that
figuring it was his life.
He had to explain the
issues
explain that it was all
right to demand dignity in labor
explain that the work was
noble and good and valuable
explain that no God was
appeased by sacrificing family
explain that the Company
had big profits to share
that a job was a mutual
transaction
that one need not be
thankful to have and penitent to hold
that the collective power
of the Worker is a force to be respected
that their division
fostered the autocratic arrogance of management.
The organizer did all of
that
and when he called for the
vote and lost
he told them Some were
meant to be peasants and slaves after all
something they had already
known.
He left town and they went
to work.
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