LRR Focus: Labor Party Advocates

[Excerpt] For more than a decade, Tony Mazzocchi, Presidential Assistant of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, has traversed the nation as the principal organizer of the Labor Party Advocates. His message: For the past ten years, I have openly declared my belief that unless the trade union movement in this country seizes the political initiative and organizes a labor party, it will never again be the force it once was. Responding to this challenge, in October 1993, some 80 trade unionist\u27s from 23 states voted to convene a founding convention. Then, in the spring of this year, LPA\u27S interim steering committee endorsed a proposal to hold the convention in Denver in 1995