Right to Work’s Racist Roots

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.afscme.org/blog/right-to-works-racist-roots

BY JOYE BARKSDALE | MARCH 04, 2015

Wisconsin is the latest state where political extremists are pushing the right-to-work scam. By now we know that no matter how refined the arguments, the laws have one main goal: busting unions. But aside from the scam’s union-busting agenda, right-to-work also has a sordid racial past.

Back in the early 1940s, Vance Muse was an oil lobbyist and ardent segregationist with a history of supporting anti-worker causes. He opposed the 8-hour workday and child labor laws, as well as women’s rights. And he detested unions largely because, aside from believing them to be communist fronts, he was certain their growth would lead to mixing of the races.

Here’s a quote from Muse:

“From now on, white women and white men will be forced into organizations with black African apes whom they will have to call ‘brother’ or lose their jobs.”

FULL story at link.

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1. Dissent Magazine

Dissent magazine has an article on this also, as well as some other great sources on this subject and on a lot of others researched material