What was to be done? On the gas workers labor union picket line

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It was dark, before sunrise, before 6am. We drove to the labor union picket line with revolutionary news papers and leaflets supporting the gas worker’s strike. I thought I felt a tension in the car. We were going to a picket line with mostly white workers who were relatively well paid and not know to favor hard left wing views or opposition to the Democratic Party. So of the comrades in the car had spent more time at anti-war rallies on Boston Common than time at factory gates in the early morning.

We were on the street in front of the Boston Gas facility and joined about a hundred labor union members on the sidewalk. The team captain went up to the union official who was the picket line captain and introduced herself and showed an issue of the paper and a leaflet while explaining that we were there to support the strike and walk the picket line. We were allowed to join the action and got into the picket line now moving from sidewalk to sidewalk in front of a roadway coming out of the facility.

I walked with the newspaper on a clipboard under my arm. Other activists walked next to a picketer and showed the paper and spoke. I am not a member of the newspaper staff, and I am not an official representative of the group. If the crowd is small enough I just let the members speak to people as they probably will encounter everyone. At a larger demonstration I walk around and offer the paper, but try not to talk to much and let the paper speak for itself and the organization’s ideas. (cont. https://xenagoguevicene.wordpress.com/2021/12/30/what-was-to-be-done-on-the-gas-workers-labor-union-picket-line/ )