{"value"=>"<p>Interview with Marcus Raskin, March 8, 1979. 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 02826, 02828, 02830, 02832, and 02833. Side A: Among other issues and topics Leon Shull discusses the Progressive Alliance and his involvement; the role of Jim Shenton (see audio cassette T00010); much of the interview deals with Shull's evaluations of Doug Fraser, president of the United Auto Workers, and founder of the Progressive Alliance. Side B: Among the subjects Marcus Raskin discusses are the long-standing and complex historical relationship between the UAW and the Democratic Party, \"in Michigan they are the Democratic Party to a great extent\"; the need to move beyond individual and group interests; the problem of holding together the labor movement, and the need for the labor movement to see itself as part of the Progressive Alliance; the budget as a unifying issue; the need for the Progressive Alliance build a strong national organization; how can the Progressive Alliance persuade self -interested groups to work with PA; the need to redefine the meaning of \"interest\"; and Doug Fraser's role as the acknowledged leader of the progressive wing of the labor movement, and his qualities as a leader of the working class, \"Having come up through the line he understands what the everyday feelings and needs are of the working class... having struggled on the assembly line at Chrysler plant over a fifteen year period or more, he knows exactly what it means to be on the line in that way... he has a very positive sense of what work, and workers, and what production is in this society, he does not romanticize either about the assembly line, or about the productive process\".</p>"}