Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sbcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!sbcs!debray From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray) Newsgroups: net.nlang.india Subject: Re: Jitendra's comments - An addition (trade unions) Message-ID: <240@sbcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 09:14:31 EST Article-I.D.: sbcs.240 Posted: Mon Apr 22 09:14:31 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Apr-85 21:29:24 EST References: <169@telesis.UUCP> <167@uscvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Computer Science Dept, SUNY@Stony Brook Lines: 20 (Forward, the Light Brigade ...) Bapa Rao: > > It is a mistake to speak of democracy as though ... what the > "masses" really need is ... suspension of trade unions ... > Yeah, but if these damned trade unions got off their asses, stopped striking and gheraoing at the drop of a hat, and did a decent day's work, the country'd be a darned sight better off! Much of the time their infighting is just for the control of political turf, anyway, not because it gives workers a better deal. Frankly, I don't like some people making political capital out of other people's misery. -- Saumya Debray SUNY at Stony Brook uucp: {allegra, hocsd, philabs, ogcvax} !sbcs!debray arpa: debray%suny-sb.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa CSNet: debray@sbcs.csnet