AMERICANS ARE more out-of-date and ill-
informed concerning the realities of the labor move-
ment in the United States than they are in any other
area of public interest. Fifty years ago, the picture of
a labor union as a weak, idealistic organization of
downtrodden workers struggling against an oppres-
sive concentration of property power was often ac-
curate. Any such picture of an established union
today is not merely ridiculous; it is willfully or ig-
norantly untruthful.

Today the greatest concentrations of political and
economic power in the United States of America are
found--not in the over-regulated, over-criticized,
over-investigated, and over-taxed business corpora-
tions--and certainly not in their hag-ridden, brow-
beaten, publicity-fearful managers. The greatest con-

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