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RE: COUNTERORiANTASTON WEEM re swe 8. a RE, ee, The second appreach I imagine would be that of factory organizing. This involves getting pecple into really economic action through labor unions cr other working class organizations which build their base around the point of production rather than all their people Live in a cewmunity of this kind righ’ here. Of course, one reason that the left has ignored the working class is that many of the established unicns in America have a very bad reputation of seljing cut the stricgle of the workers. Even though this is true, we believe that the petential for working class __ (unintelligible) is very great, both in new unions which can be-crganized on 3°cmewhat different assumptions than old unions. Essentially this car be particularly easily done in non-unionized areas such es the Saath. It seems to me that it would be possible to, yeu know, hiild unions here starting from a non-union situation where ' fan could be created which would not be racist and would no bo hureaucratic as some northern unions are. But the potential for change within existing vnion structures -~——— is alse great when the rank and Liles can be crganized to deal with this bureaucracy and sell-out pelicy in established unicns. x Ser AP tai ASR LO id dae a . wy ped wy Students now are trying te gain experience in contact with working people through programs such as ACT and also through taking part in factory euperiences in the summer. MARTHA, however, repre ented a group cf students from this area who worked in Charlotte this past summer. I was working for a while ina friend’s shcep, And MARTHA was in (unintelligible) Nerth Carolina Foods. Later * ghe will relate some of her Observations that. she gained over the summer. I wanted to relate a few more gereral things fixst. The national SDS, there was a ict of publicity in magazines like Time and Newsweek, and probably even TV Guide about SDS was going to come in and, you know, rack up all these factorjes and they were going to, you know, take over the factory like they tcok over the buildings atColumbia, and all this kind of thing. The program that we were in, I just want to tell you, the program that we were in was net connected with any national organization out of the SDS Or any other national grup. We had just an informal arrangement, you know, cf people who were interested in this kind of learning process, lea:ning and living together in Charlotte in a working situation. 37 ct TN Ne iT SE TE TAI ST LINE OC Met EET Cs NS. MES Fie a ‘ So mganty ye d wet am . tee . ers FD ut¢ ey Se Regeneron OS pm gk cee mete =e om soe