'ARISE, YE PRISONERS...'

摘要

Arise, ye prisoners of starvation!" Exhorted the "Internationale," the anthem of the proletariat long ago, when the class struggle was supposed to be the engine of history and the proletariat was supposed to be the vessel of progress. John Joseph Sweeney has risen about as high as an American labor union man can, and as high as Washington's restrictions on high-rise buildings will permit. As the new head of the AFL-CIO, which has 78 affiliated unions, Sweeney occupies an eighth-floor office in the house of labor on 16th Street, looking down on the White House. (Doesn't everybody seem to nowadays?)