Word: workers
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Ways and Means. S.D.S. is broken into so many factions on most campuses that its energies are being dissipated by internal haggling. Although distinctions between the S.D.S. factions are blurry, there are three principal wings: the Worker-Student Alliance, the Revolutionary Youth Movement 1 (Weatherman) and the Revolutionary Youth Movement 2. All are committed to the notion of a more or less violent revolution in America, but they differ over ways and means...
Taking a Marxist-Leninist line borrowed from the Progressive Labor Party, the Worker-Student Alliance insists that students subordinate themselves to workers as the vanguard of the revolution. Though W.S.A. thinks that Negro laborers will ultimately lead the movement, it hedges on the primacy of black workers at the start. As a result, the other factions label W.S.A. racist. In turn, W.S.A. criticizes the rest of S.D.S. for looking down on workers and existing labor organizations...
Ghetto Gougers. Many of the poor contend that gouging ghetto merchants have posted bigger price increases than the storekeepers who serve the middle class. "We have our own kind of inflation here," says Mrs. Vivian Taylor, a community worker in East Harlem. "On [welfare] check day, the first and 16th of each month, food prices are up. If 5 Ibs. of sugar was 59? the day before, it's sure to be 79? on check day." Samuel Meyer, 86, a wheelchair-bound resident of Manhattan's Lower East Side slums, finds food prices up so sharply that...
...came into this world with nothing," says Herman W. Ryals, a retired civil service worker, "and it looks as though that's the way I'm going to leave it." His lament is becoming familiar among the thousands of Gulf Coast victims of last August's Hurricane Camille. Nothing remains of the crippled Ryals' modest frame home near the beach at Gulfport, Miss., and he and his wife now live in a leased trailer on their hurricane-stripped lot. His insurance company offered to pay only 25% of his claim, says Ryals, so he has hired...
This is not to say that every white worker, or foreman. or union official, is "racist." but merely that black workers here are to some extent-and more important, probably strongly feel themselves to be-in an alien. white world. The current SDS campaign has denied that the attitudes of white workers have anything to do with the situation of the painters' helpers. White workers. SDS claims have no objections to promoting the painters' helpers at one swoop. If so, it would appear to be a small miracle: that white workers-particularly the Irish Bostonians who are a large part...