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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Sunday, July 06, 2003 ::
Right to Work leader steps down, keeps fighting
Mr. Larson rallied support in 1965 against a congressional repeal of provisions in the Taft-Hartley Act that permitted states to determine whether compulsory unionism would be allowed.
The Senate was on the verge of repealing the provisions until Mr. Larson was able to generate a grass-roots movement against the repeal, said Morton Blackwell, a member of the foundation's board and the founder of the Leadership Institute.
"It was very dicey," Mr. Weyrich recalled. "But finally when sentiment from right-to-work states weighed in, finally, they won. It literally resurrected the conservative movement from the ash bin of history."
Mr. Larson is credited with having developed the nation's first conservative litigating group 34 years ago with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. He acknowledges that it was modeled after a legal group with a very different political agenda — the legal fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.------------------------------------------- posted 8:39 AM :: reference link ::
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