{"value"=>"Interview with Jim Shenton, Professor of History, Columbia University"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Taped by Manford for use in a comparative study of the leadership qualities of Doug Fraser, President of the United Auto Workers, and Eugene Debs, conducted for a political science seminar at Columbia. Also see audio cassettes 02828, 02830, 02831, 02832, and 02833. \\ Shenton discusses the creation of the Progressive Alliance composed of political activists interested in involving people in the political process and in mobilizing votes. He also speaks about the subsequent development of the Alliance into a broad coalition of labor, humanitarian, social, ecological, and civil rights organizations, and the roles played in this process by Lee Benson and Doug Fraser, president of the United Auto Workers. Some of the issues also discussed and analyzed are blue collar elitism, the need to organize those workers that have been kept out unions and do not fit into the AFL-CIO scheme for the embourgeoisment of labor; the reluctance of the UAW, and other unions, to get involved in the environmental movement because they see a clash of interest, and because their leaders are chiefly interested in increasing \"the political clout of the already organized. membership. and extending \"this clout throughout already organized labor\". Shenton ends the interview by criticizing the unions and Progressive Alliance for not trying to help workers that have been marginalized by organized labor.</p>"}