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In 1958, Herman Benson, a longtime socialist and labor editor of a weekly New York tabloid, Labor Action, received a call about three leaders in a Chicago Machinist union local. They had challenged the questionable financial practices of the union business agent, but the union's international president was more upset about their distribution of handbills to members than any malfeasance by the business agent. He put the local under a trustee who promulgated rules banning distribution of any literature (even the Bill of Rights). As the local leaders carried on their protest, two of them were expelled by the president, A. L. Hayes, after he suppressed the results of an internal trial and issued his own verdict. It's an appalling story, but the kicker is that Hayes was also chairman of the new AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee.

Moberg reviews Rebels, Reformers, and Racketeers: How Insurgents Transformed the Labor Movement by Herman Benson.

The new global economic system increases corporate power and income inequality. Labor needs new strategies to fight back.

In Guatemala, international solidarity helped garment workers win a union contract. What can we learn from this success?

Examines economic, social, and political factors related to global status for the city, and reforms needed for businesses to succeed in the global economy; Chicago, Illinois.

The remaking of the US labor movement is examined. Though newly elected American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations President John J. Sweeney suggested that the labor movement had undergone substantive change during his first three months in office, real change in the labor movement must occur from the ground up. Unions need to use creative strategies to mobilize their members to take control of their organizations on their own behalf. Membership education, union involvement in high-profile labor disputes, global solidarity, inside protest campaigns, centralization of the US labor movement, & establishment of a worker's bill of rights movement can produce fundamental change in labor. D. Generoli