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To: fortheDeclaration

I know the Communists were heavily involved in the unions. I’m having a hard time reconciing the New Deal being presented as anti-communist when FDR was being backed by the Pendergast machine, which relied heavily on union support.


690 posted on 12/18/2007 3:58:36 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic
I know the Communists were heavily involved in the unions. I’m having a hard time reconciing the New Deal being presented as anti-communist when FDR was being backed by the Pendergast machine, which relied heavily on union support.

And one of the goals was getting rid of the Communists from the Unions.

699 posted on 12/18/2007 4:12:45 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Neocons-the intellectual blood brothers of the Left-Yaron Brook)
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