National Prayer Breakfast: The Family's Attitude To-wards Blacks. page 140

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From the book The Family by Jeff Sharlet...page 140


What of the pamphlet's promise that "representatives of both capital and labor find common ground" at such? of seventeen speakers, only one spoke for labor, James Duncan. An officer of the International Association of Machinists, Duncan helped drive a rift into the West Coast labor movement with his firm opposition to a popular rank-and-file initiative to allow African Americans to work for Boeing. His involvement with the bosses who made up the membership of the Seattle Breakfast Group provides a portrait of labor leadership with which Abram's Fellowship felt it could stand on common ground: violent, reactionary, and thick with bigotry.

Abram himself never made an explicitly racist remark in his life, but he practiced a paternalism that amounted to a quiet declaration of his views on the matter. Some of Abram's closest allies would be Dixiecrats such as Strom Thurmond, who became a co-leader with Abram of the senate's weekly prayer breakfast, and Mississippi senator John Stenis. At the left end of Abram's spectrum were men such as Reps Brooks hays of Arkansas and John Sparkman of Alabama, "moderates" who felt that slow and limited integration was an acceptable option, if not a necessity. Activism on it's behalf bordered on treason.

Duncan evidently felt the same way, only more so. In 1941 at Boeing Local 751 of the Aero Mechanics Union voted to allow African Americans to join it's membership, already 9,100 strong and sure to grow as the war demanded more planes. But the local's parent, Duncan's International Association of Machinists, claimed the union's constitution barred non-whites, union democracy and the war effort be damed. The International accused the local's president of communism and replaced him in a coup with a red-baiter named Harry Bomber. To validate Bomber's unelected leadership, the International rented out Seattle's Civic Auditorium for a mass meeting of anti-red----anti-black---workers. The city fathers, who by then comprised Abram's purest "God-lead" political machine, approved; in a few days before the meeting, the Seattle Times declared it "one of the most important in Seattle's labor history."

Most of the members of the local didn't think so. Out of 9,100, only 2,000 attended, and just over half of those even bothered to vote on the International's slate of rigged issues. Even then they cleared a man accused of communism of all charges. After the meeting, goons associated with the pro-business, anti-black slate delivered beatings to those they considered leaders of the pro-black faction. The victims filed charges. The district attorney, B Gray Warner- a fellowship man- took the case so seriously he declared it's proper handling a matter of 'national defense.' That is, the victims were hindering national defense by complaining instead of buckling down to work. No cases went to trail.

By 1943, the progressives beaten, jailed, driven out of town, or cowed into submission, the Machinist leadership of which the Fellowship's Duncan was an officer produced an edition of the newsletter, Aero Mechanic, featuring a cartoon of a black man applying for a job at boeing. "Stable Lizers." he says, in response to a question about airplane stabilizers. "Yas Suh! Ah sho knows 'bout dem.' In an inset, we see a black man sweeping a stable.



Even though The Family is now famous for their "kill the gays bill", it's important to remember that their CORE MISSION is to keep money and power out of the hands of workers.,

The Family has improved it's image, of late, to erase the racism it used to represent. The "new and improved" Family employs Uncle Tom/Scab types now for PR purposes. It's mission HAS NOT CHANGED. They admit blacks to enforce their laws on blacks. Like Uganda the Uncle Toms serve the mission.

And they even hire Uncle Toms for gays. Think "Cure the Gay" group. Another Uncle Tom/scab relationship.

It's been seventy years since the Fellowship was formed. THE MISSION IS STILL THE SAME! They've just gotten good at PR and marketing.

GIVE THE RICH EVERYTHING..GIVE THE WORKERS NOTHING BUT BEATINGS!

Don't let the culture wars distract you...

The Family is about MONEY!



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