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pressure from a section of 'Buy American' printed a the bourgeoisie is to run to them), speakers went of another section of the bour- of their way to assert tha RS CENT Lane Kirkland But the waking up has not been spontaneous. They have been shaken out of their lethargy by a membership which has found increasingly • that union membership is no protection in today's Ameragainst declining 1C0 wages, cutbacks in public services, and union-busting.
Last year real average income in the US fell by five per cent - more than in any year since 1947.
And now Reagan's all-out attack on federal government spending threatens new problems - for the users of welfare service s and in particular for federal and local government employees, who are FY the building of a labour or workers' party in the United States.
The AFL-CIO, however, has matched its opposition to Reagan with a deep than ever compromise with the Democratic Party.
With the exception of the Teamsters, who supported Reagan and didn't support Solidarity Day, the main unions • have used the period since Reagan's WASHING TON the Socialist Party was able to win a million votes in the presidential election. Strikes were fought with great ferocity and courage.
But the movement was still weak. The American Federation of Labour was composed of lily-white craft unions, run according to the principle of 'business unionism'. The Industrial Workers of the World, a mixture of
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poorer