Abstract

First Rebels on the Labor Front

It has been said of today's labor movement in the United States that it needs, more than anything else, some honest rebels within its own ranks-men to kindle fires of protest against union chieftains who have grown out of touch with the rank and file. Such a rebel has now emerged on the West Coast, and under his direction more than 10,000 workers have staged the first major union revolt in almost twenty years. William R. Perrin is president of the new Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers Membership, and the association is composed of mill workers in California, Oregon and Washington. On June 4, Perrin held a news conference to announce that twenty-three West Coast locals, with a membership of slightly more than 10 000 had disaffiliated from the two unions and formed the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers.