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Reagan likes to recall his early postwar days as a workingman's advocate. In fact, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, he was not, reports Wills, "speaking for labor, but ((acting as)) a strikebreaker doing the will of the producers." When his movie career faltered, he became host of a television series, General Electric Theater, and stumped cross-country, speaking for the company. After eight years, he was summarily dismissed, but Reagan has no harsh words for GE; after all, by the time he was fired in 1962, he had reached a new constituency...
...Paradise by the "C", a surfside 1978 instrumental titled in tribute to Saxman Clarence Clemons, is get-down beach music in extremis and in excelsis. The breadth of Springsteen's spirit and the range of his gifts can handily be measured in the distance between Paradise and Seeds, a workingman's testament of pride, helplessness and hopelessness from the 1985 tour that is one of his best tunes, and certainly one of his angriest. With all this, there is one more thing. Just incidental, of course, considering that Springsteen is now a certifiable sociological phenomenon, a rocker who is written...
...population continues to drink as it always has. Marshall Lyons, 31, a Berkeley, Calif., tree surgeon, even gives nostalgic martini (stir, don't shake) parties, complete with Peggy Lee music, because, he says, "martinis have the aesthetic of cold steel. They're like contemporary graphics." Dudley's, a workingman's tavern in Atlanta, has not slacked off selling ten kegs of beer a week as it has for years. "We're a neighborhood place," says Manager Tas Cofer. "We get workers from GM, construction men, manual laborers. They know everybody, and they say, 'I'm going to party with those...
...Chavez, has been-justly accused of placing politics above the interests of the workers. Chavez was perhaps the first of a new breed of union leader, a very perplexing breed. On the one hand, Chavez and the others have achieved landmark contracts and won many battles in which the workingman had a heavy stake. On the other hand, they have alienated many from the organs of their supposed self-representation...
Arguments about the Catholic Church's ability to comment on social justice issues are not applicable either. The Church has been vigorously and continuously denouncing materialism while advocating the rights of the workingman for over a hundred years. From Pope Leo XIII's call for the dignity and rights of the laborer to Pope John Paul II's recent appeal that "the needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich,"' papal encyclicals have elucidated time and time again the moral implications of economic policy-making...