From: "Thomas P.Murray" <tommym1-AT-ix12.ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 11:15:36 +0000
Subject: (Fwd) Re: Note from Mike Alewitz


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Date:          Fri, 27 Jun 1997 19:47:47 -0700 (PDT)
Reply-to:      Conference "iww.news" <iww-news-AT-igc.apc.org>
From:          Jon Bekken <jbekken-AT-igc.apc.org>
Subject:       Re: Note from Mike Alewitz
To:            Recipients of conference <iww-news-AT-igc.apc.org>

Fellow Workers,

This is a typically dishonest letter from these grave-robbers, 
beginning with its mischaracterization of FW Grant's earlier article on 
Alewitz's efforts, which criticized him not for drawing upon the IWW's 
legacy, but rather for twisting it beyond all recognition in his effort 
to legitimate his own reformist politics.  As FW Grant noted in his 
article, Alewitz consistently seeks to disappear the IWW from his 
accounts of our struggles, and misrepresents the views of those IWW 
members he deigns to acknowledge.

His claim that the CIO or the Communist Party or other such outfits 
somehow have at least as good a claim to the legacy of the IWW as those 
who have actually stuck with the organization against enormous odds is 
simply a more subtle variation of the 'the IWW disappeared in the 
1920s' claims that the Centralia Mural Project folks have been putting out.

I would suggest that these fakers be put on notice that if they persist 
in their misrepresentations and slanders against the IWW, that we have 
the means and the will to shut their project down.  Let these 
descendants of the emplying class interests who gunned down FW Everett 
turn once again to the cops to defend their mural from the working 
class they so despise and abuse.



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