Volume 1, Number 5 · October 31, 1963
Piecework
By Harvey Swados
The State of the Unions
by Paul Jacobs
Atheneum, 303 pp., $5.00
On page 5 of The State of The Unions James Hoffa is described as 'ninth vicepresident' of the Teamsters' Union and its 'most dynamic force.' On page 20 he is described as 'ninth vice-president' of the Teamsters' Union and its 'most dynamic figure.' On page 147 we are given a one-paragraph definition of 'Bogus' (a cant word in the printing trades), and on page 199 we are given approximately the same one-paragraph definition of the same word. On page 99 we are told that Harry Bridges 'has tolerated an all-white longshore local in Portland,' and on page 288 we are told that even in Bridges' ''progressive' union there is at least one local that excludes Negroes.' (Despite the fact that we are told this twice, incidentally, it is no longer so.) On page 182 we are told that braceros are 'Mexicans legally brought into the United States first during the Second World War to meet the shortage of domestic labor,' and on page 193 we are told that braceros are 'Mexican contract laborers brought north under Public Law 78 for the harvesting season.'
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