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Article: Will the Labor Party work?(founding convention of U.S. Labor Party)
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- The Nation
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- July 8, 1996
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At the height of debate around the most contentious issue before some 1,300 delegates at the founding convention of the Labor Party last month in Cleveland, San Francisco longshoreman Dick Mead summed it up bluntly. The main question, he said, was "Is you is, or is you ain't?" Is the Labor Party an electoral party, or isn't it?
From the beginning of the marathon four-day meeting, there was little doubt that a new organization would arise from this discussion, or that it would have the support of a significant section of the country's labor movement. The issue was whether to run candidates, and Mead's fellow delegates from the International Longshoremen's and ...