Re: [Marxism] ILWU leadership and Clarence Thomas???

["Xxxx Xxxxxx" <xxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> James Spinosa is the Secretary-Treasurer of
> the ILWU. Spinosa is heads the international
> union. Clarence Thomas, whatever position he
> may hold in ILWU Local 10, is not, however,
> the "Secretary-Treasurer of the ILWU".

I said Local 10. A labor net source says that Thomas is/was the
Secretary-Treasurer of ILWU Local 10.  He was at some point (October
2002)--during the Four-Day Tour to France.
http://www.labournet.net/docks2/0210/france1.htm. He may not hold a position
now, but he was the treasury secretary by 2002. Is your source retroactive?

The bottom line is that you don't "get" the message that the problem is not
his status per se (whatever position he holds there). It is what he said at
a workshop on "Labor and the War," "Thomas spoke at length against the IG's
call, saying "the reality of the situation is that we have to do it," i.e.,
load war materiel.  http://www.internationalist.org/bayarealeabor1202.html.

>From http://www.labournet.net/docks2/0210/france1.htm

"1) Report on the Four-Day Tour to France by ILWU Local 10
Secretary-Treasurer Clarence Thomas
On September 27 through October 1, Clarence Thomas, secretary-treasurer of
ILWU Local 10, traveled to France at the invitation of the French Workers
Party and the International Liaison Committee for a Workers' International
(ILC).


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