The U.S.A. and the UAW

May 15-20. Dallas. No, not Dallas, a soap opera that holds much of the world’s population in its grip. Same scene, no doubt, but a different cast of characters. On this occasion, 5,000 UAW people, half of them delegates, have assembled from every part of North America for their 27th Constitutional Convention. “Who killed American labor?” wasn’t exactly the theme, but some of these union representatives, who are not sure if they will ever attend another such gathering (their plants may be closed), looked funereal enough. They know who’s killing their movement. The culprit, Ronald Wilson Reagan, never stopped getting his lumps. He or his affluent allies will nevertheless claim that no one laid a glove on him.

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