WfJRNERS ,,1NfiIJI1RIJ 25¢ No. 342 .~j~~: X.-523 18 November 1983
Reagan Is War Crazy! Defend the Soviet Union! ear I ...
Kennerly/Time NOVEMBER IS-If, as the ancient Greeks believed. those whom the gods would destroy they first drive mad. then the destruction of the United States has surely begun. First came the Americans' KAL 007 anti-Soviet war provocation, sending a civilian airliner directly over the Russians' most sensitive military installations. Now on a "Grenada high" after their "big win" in the Caribbean. ",. the genuinely evil leaders of the Yankee ~ empire have escalated from one anti .. Soviet war provocation to another. ! Meanwhile a giant t'.S. hattIe fleet is I arrayed against supposed "Soviet surro · ·[ gates" in the "ear Ea,!. And they have t begun deplO\ment of new first-strike f iIiriIill .,- --~ J:.ui\..)inh>,:l~~... \\ ~ll~:;-l. '.\ ~n put l"neiTi nnl: ~ eight minutes from Moscow ... and World \""ar Ill. Ronald Reagan & Co. are acting as if they really believe the: can destro: the SO\lct Lnion \\ithout ! harrning a hair on the hcad of a single white middle-class American voter. But ~b the\ tHing about their own ruin. the cr~i!ies in the White House and Penta gon could obliterate the planet. "\"'ill the \\orid sllrvi\e until 1984-:" is sudden lya question on everyone's lips. In the Atlantic. some 500 miles off the coast of South Carolina. an American U.S Navy sub-hunting destroyer hit and disabled a Aircraft carrier Ranger, sent from Nicaraguan coast to Arabian Sea, is now poised to strike at Iran and "secure"the Soviet nuclear submarine. In the Carib Persian Gulf, hean the U.S. is staging a "no-notice" Their guns are trained on Soviet-backed Washington's brinkmen of the nuclear dragging the cable of a sonar sled across naval war maneuver off Guantanamo to Syria. Less noticed by the press is apocalypse are doing their best to them. then they laugh about it being threaten the Cubans. And in the eastern another carrier group in the Arabian provoke a showdown with the Soviets. disabled. Next they accuse the Russians Mediterranean Reagan's admirals have Sea (the Ranger. previously engaged in So far. Moscow has been laid back, but of being at fault under some antiquated concentrated an armada of more than gunboat diplomacy against Nicaragua) someone in the Kremlin is certainly British Admiralty rule declaring subs 40 ships, including three carrier battle along with an entire invasion flotilla of adding it all up. "burdened vessels," and brazenly de groups (the Eisenhower. the Kennedr the Rapid Deployment Force-totaling The Americans' high-seas attack on clare that a Soviet/ U.S. agreement to and the Independence. redeployed after some 35 vessels-poised to strike at Iran the Soviet submarine couldn't have been avoid incidents at sea-which bans its Grenadian "victory") and the battle and "secure" the Persian Gulf. From more provocative. First they cripple tht' simulated attacks-doesn't cover sub ship New Jersey. plus 300 attack planes. Grenada to the Strait of Hormuz, boat. evidently ripping its props off by marines. A Navy spokesman blandly announced that the U.S. destroyer was conducting "antisubmarine warfare" (in peacetime). Every American better thank their lucky stars for the cool Soviet Sub Attacked by U.S. on the High Seas temperament of that Soviet command ~~. » er. World War I was started over less " than this. \1eanwhile. on Grenada the Soviet , embassy staff is subjected to flagrant violations of diplomatic immunity that w" if·-~f •1 Soviet nuclear make the seizure of the American armed submarine crippled by U.S. embassy in Teheran look like an ~ destroyer, Don't exercise in polished diplomatic proto mess with the col. And in the Near East, Lebanon is Russians! but a beachhead for U.S. imperialism. ., The real strategic prize is control of the -l continued on page 14
, .., • oc, Ii.'".. &, ---'-----.------. Special Supplement llnside-$ee P~ges 5:'12 ------• It l It ~ I SL/SYL Protest "Social Democratic" Contra Terrorist. Eden Pastora: CIA's Nicaraguan Traitor
Once he was known as Comandante plane was provided by the CIA. calling for a "political solution" in aI, 31 October). Such agreements Cera (Commander Zero) in the bloody Pastora's outfit, ARDE (Spanish for l\icaragua and supporting the so-called representing an historic betrayal of the 'Rurn'). also claims responsibility for war against the Somoza tyranny, but blowing up oil tanks in order to cripple "Contadora initiative" (the proposal by Salvadoran revolution-would only dig now that he has gone over to the the Nicaraguan economy. In one such f\'1exico, Panama, Colombia and Vene the graves of the Sandinistas them Somozaist mercenaries his name is terror raid. 25,000 people had to be zuela to negotiate an end to the civil war selves, allowing Washington to tighten reviled in Managua: Eden Pastora, El evacuated from the port of Corimo in raglllg in Centra] America before it gets the counterrevolutionary noose around Traidor (Traitor). This counterrevolu order to :lvoid a fien holocaust. We sav: out of hand). But any deal with Pastora give this lerroriq aone-wav Iicket to Nicaragua. The imperialists and their tionary turncoat has the blood of Managua to be tried bva revolutionan means blocking the road to social lackeys cannot be appeased or Nicaragua's peasants and workers on tribun'al of his \ietirTIS·." . revolution in "iicaragud, seeking to reformed-they must be defeated on the his hands and CIA dollars in his pocket. replace the pres.em petty-bourgellis fidd of battle. Last week Pastora arrived in the United Outside "Freedom House." an SL radical-natio1l3li>t Sandinista regime rhus the Trotskyists of the m States on a tour to promote himself as a spokesman told the ·Vel'" York Timps: with a refurbished capitalist state. This ternationa! Spartacist tendency call "democratic alternative" to the Sandi o nista revolution. This contra terrorist is o .c aiming at a repeat of Reagan's invasion Q. ~ ;~~\C~~~\,lJ~~' FrfED;;~ II ' •• tl > of tiny Grenada, with himselfas quisling ~ Sts1~~· f\ \jIC 1 M t HOUSE: J' <> ' c" for the Yankees. But it cost more than 'i"~tftQ{\·~oo~ 50,000 lives to rid the country of the i"yl0 ttlO tFiOtJr FDR!. J.... 'I Somoza dictatorship, and the Nicara -zi f~~ \ .."" \tACU CIA:S TEnOi '. . '''Jjl. . guan people will fight to the death to ~r.~~~\. t"it~\I~~E:, METliOrr .101 al~lil'AJI prevent the return of this gang of .-~ S?f.~. ~·l/S'l\.)TO ~!~f~~£' cutthroat killers and torturers. The .~4<-. -Sp<1rt(lcl5t. .ttf~'H Trotskyists say the Nicaraguan masses \ -j .JtPol!"n _...... "'. are fully justified in demanding, "i Pas ....."j tara al pared6n!" (Pastora to the execution wall). When he showed up in New York on t November 9 for a kick-off press confer ence sponsored by "Freedom House," a Paslara Traitor' front for the CIA's worldwide Terror Network, the pseudo-democratic contra SL/SYL Smash CIATerrorists War got a hot reception from the Spartacist confronts contra League/Spartacus Youth League (SL/ terrorist Pasiora on Nicaragua! at CIA front SYL). Several dozen demonstrators ~ chanted, "Nicaraguan people say, Freedom House, November 9. smash Pastora and the CIA!" "Smash '~. Reagan's Bay of Pigs, l\icaragua needs L~':~:£.l~~~;::J MIGs!" and "Pastora. comras. COfItra Roaches checi< in...M they doot d1edc out! imperialistas-i No pasaran l" Sparta fr-··~ cist signs included "Hail Heroic Cuban Fighters in Grenada!" and "Defend,
~.>.-•.. SPAftTACIST~._ Complete, Extend the Nicaraguan ·J.t'f'iS",:Y",·__ Revolution!" A placard showed Pastora "We're here as a reminder that in would only prepare the way for the for "Military victory to leftist insurgents and U.S. war criminal Jeane Kirkpa Managua there are tens of thousands of return of the Somozaist butchers and a in El Salvador!" "Defend, complete, trick crawling into a Roach Motel people that are going to stop [Pastora), new bloodbath in Managua. extend the Nicaraguan revolution!" and labeled Nicaragua as demonstrators arms in hand. The only way he's even That Castro should now conspire "Defense of Cuba/USSR begins in proclaimed, "Roach Motels for the going to get close is with the 82nd with the enemies of the Nicaraguan Central America!" Simply in order to CIA-They check in and there they Airborne, and they're going to have a working people reflects the treacherous defend the democratic gains of the stay!" Eventually a black limousine fight on their hands." nationalist logic of Stalinism. Cuba, Sandinista revolution today it is urgent swerved to the curb and goons from the which has consolidated a bureaucrati ly necessary to expropriate the capitalist Cuban gusano group Abdala leapt out Pastora and his Somozaist fellow cally deformed workers state under the "fifth column" inside Nicaragua, which to hustle El Traidor past the angry contras are already receiving a lot more Yankees' guns, puts the squeeze on is led by supporters of Pastora/Robelo. protesters shouting "Pastora asesino, than "guns and boots" from Uncle Sam. Nicaragua to cut a deal with the contra With the entire' Central American puppet of the CIA!" According to the Wall Street Journal killers. Nicaragua, which has had a isthmus seething, only a revolutionary Inside, before the media, Pastora (27 July), "U.S. intelligence sources say political revolution ousting the Somoza mobilization of the working masses to postured as a popular revolutionary, ARDE . has been receiving indirect American aid in the form of equipment dynasty, puts the arm on Salvadoran take power in their own class interests even feigning concern over an American guerrillas to negotiate a compromise can defeat the strutting Central Ameri invasion: "In Grenada you got in and and laundered cash totaling $200,000 a month, or more than half of ARDE's with the local oligarchy and its death can generals and their Pentagon mas out quickly. In Nicaragua you could get squads. And spokesmen for the Kremlin ters. It is not a question of each tiny in, but getting out would be another income." Pastora's sidekick Alfonso Robelo. Nicaragua's cooking oil king have indicated they regard Central country standing alone against the matter." He claimed that he needs only America as part of the U.S. sphere of Yankee goliath, with nationalist leaders "guns and boots" from the U.S. to and a former member ofthe Sandinista led junta reported anonymous "strange influence and the Sandinistas are on stabbing each other in the back. Reagan overthrow the Sandinistas. An SL press their own. Each is ready to sell out the thinks that after Grenada, he has wiped release exposed Pastora for what he is: contributions" from "people who call up next guy's revolution in order to out the "Vietnam syndrome"-and "The CIA is running a Murder, Inc. in and say they want to help" (Los Angeles Central America, and this 'social Times, 10 September). The Cessna 404 appease rapacious imperialism. But the continued on page J3 democratic' contra is one of its prime which was shot down while bombing White House and its puppets aren't operatives. He is responsible for the Sandino Airport in Managua for interested in compromise. As the SL September 8 bombing of Managua press release stated: airport. which could have led to a ARDE has been traced tc two U.S, W(JRKERS dummy corporations which do "classi "Reagan wants to drown the Sal bloodbath of hundreds of civilians. The vadoran leftist insurgents in blood, fied military work for the United States, lay waste to Sandinista Nicaragua, VIINfilJlIRD including projects for the CIA" (New reconquer Cuba for 'free enterprise' (the Marxist Working-Class Biweekly of York Times, 8 November). Havana mafia) and ultimately over the Spartacist League of the U.S. In an interview with the Times, throw the remaining conquests of the Russian October Revolution." EDITOR: Jan Norden Pastora repeated earlier reports that his All this talk of "political solutions" PRODUCTION MANAGER Noah Wilner aides have held talks with Cuban CIRCULATION MANAGER: Darlene Kamiura short of workers revolution represents a officials: EDITORIAL BOARD: Jon Brule, Charles "The [ARDE] officials said Cuba mortal threat to the workers and Burroughs. George Foster. Liz Gordon, peasants of Latin America. How is a Mary Jo McAllister. James Robertson. initiated the talks in June because it was Reuben Samuels, Joseph Seymour. worried that Nicaragua was becoming "negotiated settlement" to be reached? Marjorie Stamberg dangerously polarized and believed the By cutting off attempts at profound Workers Vanguard (USPS 098-770) published risk of a United States invasion was social transformation (even land re biweekly, skipping an issue in August and growing.... [One official said] 'We a week in December. by the Spartacist believe the Cubans recognize the need form) and by cutting offarms to leftist Publishing Co. 41 Warren Street, New York. for reconciliation in Nicaragua'." rebels. This is precisely what the NY 10007. Telephone: 732-7862 (Editorial), 732-7861 (Business). Address all corre -Nev.' York Times. 10 November "Contadora initiative" calls for, and in spondence to Box 1377, GPO. New York. NY draft treaties recently presented to the 10116. Domestic SUbscriptions: $5.00/24 This is an ominous development which issues. Second-class postage paid at New could threaten the very survival of the U.S. State Department, Nicaragua York, NY. POSTMASTER: Send address Sandinista revolution. Hoping to ap commits itself not to "support or assist changes to Workers Vanguard. Box 1377. GPO, New York. NY 10116. any group seeking to attack, over pease warmonger Reagan, Castro is Opinions expressed in signed articles or reportedly pressuring his Nicaraguan throw or destabilize another state," and letters do not necessarily express the editorial "compafieros" to negotiate a "compro not to "supply arms or military assis viewpoint. mise" with this wing of the CIA-backed tance to any of the contending forces" No, 342 18 November 1983 EI Traidor Eden Pastora con/ras. And Pastora does his bit by in El Salvador (Barricada Internacion-
2 WORKERS VANGUARD ~p-artacist League/U.S. Holds Seventh National Conference Black and Red in Reagan's America
o The Seventh National Conference (3 L of the Spartacist League/U.S. was held CL in California in August 1983. The na ;: 3= tional conference, highest body of our democratic-centralist organization, is charged with critically assessing past work and establishing present perspec tives of the party, and with electing the new Central Committee which will Jead the organization until the next conference. The situation confronting the confer ence was characterized by manifestlv great opportunity for growth, possibly explosive growth, combined with great dangers and difficulties. The SL has shown in action that our program has SL conference the power to win exemplary victories discusses the amidst a general climate of bourgeois black question, reaction. racist "rollbacks" and union the central retreats. Our leadership of the militant question of the American mobilization of 5.000 that stopped the revolution. Klan from marching in Washmgton. D.C. last November 27 showed most clearly the SL's ability to play the role of a small mass party. the leadership of vanguard layers of the working people, Yet the SL has thus far been unable to consolidate in membership growth its powerful political successes. And such from a decade of relative social stagna and some energy kne\\ what the my. was edited for publication and substitutionism as is involved in a small tion in America and now finds itself in a Spartaeist League \\a5. \\hat it stood appeared as an article, "The Worst for, what it said and did. we could have organization undertaking to spearhead sharply changed political configuration. a shot at winning them.... If we do not World Depression Since the '30s," in the defense of the oppressed involves The main document for this conference, find the ways to grow under these ~YV No. 337,9 September). But despite real risks. Against a general backdrop of "Struggle Against Reagan Reaction," circumstances. we can expect real the breadth of material presented to the rightist retreat by the rest of the "left," sketched the domestic situation. trouble carlyon.... The targeting of us delegates. the conference discussion as the SL stands out more than ever as the "We are an organi/ation of under .'100 bv the U,S. left is merelv the 'radical' expected focused around the black rellection of the wrath on.IS. imperial hard communist opposition, and pow revolutionarv Marxists in this countrv. question. with considerable reference to under the particular conditions sym ism to\\ard those viewed as 'Smiet erful enemies have us in their sights. bolized by Reagan's election. which surrogates'.... particular fights in fractions and Following the i\'ovember 27 mobiliza represented the formalization of a "We have a mounting accumulation of branches. It was therefore very appro tion, the party was forced to undertake considerable shift in this countn' to the evidences that the social-democratic priate that an unusual number of non almost simultaneously two defensive right. And the relormists of the U.S. pressures were tending to pull the delegates and non-member invited 'left: which had gone very far to the comrades toward a blunting and round guests requested speaking time. Black legal suits, against the Moonie newspa right over the past decade. under the ing of our program. This loss of per and the FBI. The challenge is to pressures mainly of the bourgeois anti angularity at moments of the most friends of the party involved in prelimi make the leaps necessary to become in Soviet war drive. now see a chance for intense pressure is what is called nary work of local leagues for labor/ fact a small mass party of a few an 'anti-Reagan' popular front for the centrism. As a program. centrism is self black defense had very valuable obser defeating: if your program loses its thousand members; otherwise, in the Democrats. And we are widelv viewed vations, Non-party youth members too, as being in the way.... " angularity it loses its appeal." who normally would intervene mainly words of one comrade, "If we have "Our sharp iwlation on the U.S. left has many more actions like D.C., we will be been reflected in our party by some The document defined the interna in the youth conference, spoke articu a mass party with no members." elements who have picked up a sense tional political conjuncture as a prewar lately from their own standpoints. This national conference was the first that the Spartacist League is 'isolated' in period marked by intensifying inter A certain role in the discussion was societv and all but irrelevant. This is in three years. It was prepared by a flatly" wrong. The instability of the imperialist rivalries and by U.S. imperi also played by a section of the party ex period of pre-conference written discus 'Reagan consensus' has opened up, alism's all-out drive toward war with the membership, the self-styled "External sion (five party internal bulletins as well following a decade of relative stagna Soviet Union, as posed over particular Tendency," which the main conference as three internal bulletins of the youth tion. powerful prospects for fruitful "hot spots of the Cold War." The document described as "actually a organization) and branch debate. lead work and recruitment. For the first time document summarized the international motley and amorphous crew transiently the party has shown by its leadership of ing to the election of informed and mass labor/black actions to stop the political line of the Spartacist tendency linked by shared hostile subjectivism representative delegates to the confer fascists that its program has the power in terms familiar to regular readers of toward the party (and the rightist ence. In a more general sense, the to win important symbolic victories.... Wv. At the conference. several main character of quits in this period)." The conference was part of an intense "There are in this countrv, concentrated reports covered broad areas of party ETs take their political coloration from in the black populatiotl but not only a couple of would-be trade-union internal discussion in the party (focused there. clements that want to fight if they work and international concern (one around several expanded Central Com can see a wav forward.,., If such report, centering on inter-imperialist bureaucrats who claim to sec in the SL's 'mittee plenums), as the party emerged elements that have some consciousness economic rivalry and the Soviet econo- continued on page 4 ~ . ,1\ \L \ ~ 1t / \~~(\tW:) 4 ~' .~\OJ -'~~ :)~~; I 7 r . t. \\~l1\~\,j, I. ~ II" • \ '. ....t :' .... ,'~l"itt \....- ; c. c'" ,.., .. ~ ' i •.~....., ~'PJi~ * WV Photo UPI SL fights racist reaction: Organizing the 5,OOO-strong Labor/Black Mobilization which stopped KKK in Washington, D.C., 27 November 1982 (left). SL-initiated Labor Black League protests South Africa's execution of ANC anti-apartheid fighters, San Francisco, June 8 (right). 18 NOVEMBER 1983 3 Conference ... (continued from page 3) For Organizations of Labor/Black Struggle recent fights for militant unionism and We reprint below one ofthe interven tion. It was the days of great unem Monday morning dressed up. Ifhe's in our commitment to black-centered tions by comrade Dick Fraser to the ployment and they operated in the his overalls it's all right, he's either party growth an abandonment of "the 1983 SL national conference. defense of the unemployed. And they working or looking for work. But not working c1ass.~' In these times when the operated as a tendency in the Lumber dressed up. But one Monday morning ~ I want to say just a few words about risks of communist political activism and Sawmill Workers Union. Any a young black fellow came to town all the tentative proposal which I have have become so palpable, our members time there was a picket line they could dressed up. And sure enough in a few made for the application ofthe Labor/ with political differences have tended to be there. And that was before the days minutes the ranger rode up and said: Black Alliance in the South. That is, head for the door rather than "stay in of peaceful picketing [laughter]. '~Hey boy. what are you doing?" "Well for the All-Workers Union. Now I did and fight" for their views (the ETs were And I was much impressed by that I'm just looking around and I'm going not dream this up. That is basically an no exception). So since sharp debate is organization. And John McKay want to go visiting." "Well why ain't you IWW concept. The IWW was a usually the best education for commu ed me to come there and be its working?" "Oh I work all right. I work revolutionary labor movement, the nists, we used our pre-conference organizer. I could not, because I was in the domino factory outside of greatest labor movement ever in this internal bulletins to publish the most committed to the Socialist Workers town." "What do you do there?,"'I put country. provocative materials we could find Party as you know, and they took a the spots on the dominos." "Well why from ex-members-their resignations, And I have seen it, in Spokane, dim view of such a proposition. I had ain't you working today? That facto letters, etc. It is a long-standing tradi Washington-1937, 1938. The Social other work that I was committed to. ry's going." He says, "Today they're tion in the SL (which is unprecedented ist Party of Spokane was led by an old However I conceive that it may making double-blank." And I conceive so far as we know in any other Wobblie by the name ofJohn McKay. possibly be applicable to the work in that our work may eventually make it organization) to circulate to our mem And he couldn't get along with either the South. ' so that any day in East Texas it will be bers the juiciest attacks on us penned by the old guard of the Socialist Party or I anticipate success in the labor/ double-blank day for the black worker. ex-members and other opponents, but with Norman Thomas. And in 1937 black project with which I am I've had some discussions with many the ETs have been of particular peda they refused to accept his dues pay collaborating in an extremely limited comrades, which have been very gogical utility, as they are a kind of ment. So he bought himself a little capacity. And I want to tell you a little gratifying, and I am humbled by the crystallization of whatever is backward platen press and printed his own dues story that I told to Richard last night, knowledge that things that I wrote and wrong in the S L. stamp. And remained the Socialist that was told to me under very special thirty years ago, which were so scorned Unfortunately the ET presence at our Party ofSpokane[laughter]. And built circumstances many years ago. In the by the old party, have had some conference was rather an anti-climax. the All-Workers Union. Which was a little town of East Texas. a black man important impact, finally. I am hum They did turn up with several people miscellaneous, all-purpose organiza- is not allowed on the streets on bled by that thought and very grateful. and copies ofa new ET bulletin, a neatly produced but surprisingly dull com pendium ofselections from their materi strong objective pressure on black An intense part of the conference's the ET, the individual evidently having als (probably edited by the ET to cadres to place themselves in the work was the deliberations of the nothing to say about the grave charges emphasize "loyal"-sounding and "politi forefront of party work and leadership Nominating Commission. The Com of which he had been found guilty. The cal" attacks thereby downplaying the responsibility in this period. A powerful mission is constituted to hear from all other case was more interesting-the venomous subjectivism which our com black writer made two written contribu members wishing to offer arguments for elected delegates voting to uphold an rades have found most stimulating). tions to the conference which were or against comrades being considered ex pulsion while a majority of the for the incoming Central Committee. By fraternal delegates (outgoing CC, Con weighing and debating the observations trol Commission and Lauren Mozee and Ray Palmiero Must Not Go to Jail! Ray Palmiero, Lauren Mozee and her two children. Stop the Racist Anti-Labor Frame-Upl More than 400 militant protesters in out in the drizzling rain to march and and a half years in prison for doing their has been endorsed by labor organiza Oakland October 29 put the Alameda rally for "Freedom and jobs back for duty as unionists during the recent tions representing many thousands of County D.A. and Pacific Telephone on Lauren and Ray!" In addition, massive national phone strike. While on the workers, prominent public officials, notice: Stop the racist, anti-union leafletting, posters, radio shows, news picket line in Klan-infested San Lean numerous left-wing and community frame-up of Lauren Mozee and Ray paper articles and publicizing by the dro, Lauren was called a "black nigger activists. Among unionists and stu Palmiero! The predominantly black unions have made this case widely bitch" and hit in the face by racist scab dents, and in the neighborhoods where demonstrators, many of them trade known throughout the East Bay area. assistant manager Michelle Rose Han supporters of Ray and Lauren went to unionists and their families, had come Lauren and Ray were facing seven sen. Because Lauren defended herself continued on page 6 against this violent company assault, because her companion Ray came to her assistance, the two are facing multiple felony assault charges. They have been Muhammad Ali fired from their jobs and denied unem ployment benefits. The phone company. the cops and the Endorses D.A. are using this gross frame-up to send a message to the population: black Lauren and Ray people don't have the right to defend themselves against racist attack. work Defense ers don't have the right to defend their •.•_"._•. '~_." ~ ~·_,_c··~<··~ picket lines. Ma Bell and the D.A. may have Muhammad Ali, thought the working people of Oakland Former World would quietly stay "in their place" while Heavyweight Champ: two left-wing activists in the union were Michelle Rose picked off. But this blatant act of Hansen "No Viet Cong Ever politicized racism in the service of Called Me Nigger" union-busting is being opposed by a Racist Scab Manager vigorous public campaign ofprotest and called Lauren Mozee ~ exposure. The Phone Strikers Defense Press Release ." 8 Committee has marshaled an impres "Black Nigger Bitch" ~~l C _C£-'.£ii~-~r:-~) QI t ,o-f:{iFd.R$',5G";b~.Mitt$A6m~,m;¥;lJ sive united-front defense effo:! whiCh ~t!L!B!IIJ121:Z2&Li2& 18 NOVEMBE~~ 1983 5 '1J1.I~1j i~!~ ~"£)."flAY ,. ~l' ~. r:=t hS\ <' Jl GO TC (' iii"- . '; snfiYP OEF£~SE co , !r"~i.,::, E t:~>;,;'h;,w' 'i WV Photos (continued from page 5) right to have real picket lines-and if get the word out about the demonstra you've got no picket' lines, you've got no union. As the marchers proceeded from tion, the victimization of Mozee and Palmiero has become widelv known and the Oakland City Hall to the Alameda County Courthouse. they passed a small broadly opposed. "'It is because the """ picket line of striking bookstore work victimized militants are determined to ers. "Picket lines mean don't cross!" fight this vendetta not just in court but chanted the demonstrators in solidarity. through labor/black protest action that Speaking at the rally was Tom the D.A. has backed off from one of the Sullivan. president of striking US WA phony charges and the phone company Local 1304 in Emeryville. Steelworkers has distanced itself from scab Hansen. Local 1304 has a long militant history in From the steps of the Alameda the Bay Area. The Machinists' 141-day County Courthouse, Lauren Mozee strike in 1945-46 was part of the postwar explained the stakes: labor upsurge which culminated in the "As everyone knows. I'm a victim of a racist. anti-labor frame-up. Why? One. Oakland general strike of 1946. Mem I'm a black woman. Two. Rav and I are bers of that Steelworkers local have an interracial couple. Three. I'm a been out for five months. fighting a militant-I said militant-trade union concerted union-busting campaign by ist. A former member of the Black Grove Valve. One 1304 member. who Panther Partv for manv vears. And I'm a firm heliever-I said firm believer-in served as a leader of the monitors at the socialism. I've always heen a fighter demonstration. told our interviewers against racism and cop terror. and a that company "rent-a-cops" have been fighter for unity of the working class very aggressive against the picket lines. against the bosses. :\ow for these things This black man is now facing charges and for doing my duty on the picket lines ... I've been victimized. brought by the company cop: "He " ... It's not Ray and myself who are the claimed that I struck him which I criminals here. The criminals are Ma didn·t." American Federation of Teach Bell. the San Leandro Police Depart ers Local 771 was just evicted from its ment and the District Attorney." headquarters in the Piedmont township The demonstration brought out a and was told that unions are not serious hard core of people who know tolerated there. On the day of the rally. who the real criminals in this country the local was moving its office, but was are. Prominently displayed from the able to send a spokesman. podium were large portraits to honor About 50 phone workers participated the memory of two black victims of in the demonstration. We spoke with racist killer cops: Patrick Mason, the Darlene. a young black member of WV Photo five-year-old child shot to death by an CWA Local 9415 who began working Orange County cop last March, and Marchers carry photos of black victims of cop terror, five-year-old Patrick Mason and Machinist Charles Briscoe. together with Lauren and Ray in the Charles Briscoe, the 37-year-old Ma Militant Action Caucus during the chinists union official brutally gunned child as he sat watching TV. Oakland man and member of Local I, public recent strike and witnessed Hansen's down in 1979 by Oakland cops. cop Robert Fredericks pumped 10 employees. was the victim of the attack on Lauren. She told us: "A lot of Patrick Mason's killer, white cop rounds of ammunition into Charles notorious "choke hold"; he still has the young people today don't realize the Anthony Sperl, was recently awarded Briscoe; this was the same cop involved marks on his neck. struggles their forefathers went through $35,000 in bounty by the Worker's in the killing of I6-year-old Panther Some of the most active workers for to get unions-the deaths, the arrests. Comp Board for "psychological stress" Bobby Hutton and in no less than four Lauren and Ray in the weeks before the just to have a picket line." Darlene allegedly suffered after he broke into other shootings of blacks, two of them demonstration were members of the emphasized that defending Lauren and little Patrick's home and shot down the fatal. That Sperl and Fredericks walk Labor Black League for Social Defense Ray is integral to fighting continuing the streets as free men today says it all (LBL). The LBL was formed here company harassment and victimization: about racist class "justice" in America. around the Spartacists' Martha Phillips "Since we got back [from the strike]. election campaign last March, which they've been suspending people for PARTY! had heavily stressed the hideous pattern refusing to work overtime," a particular Be there for music, If It Could Happen to Lauren of racist killings by East Bay cops and hardship for single parents. Every dancing and partying and Ray, It Could Happen to the need to fight Klan terror through phone worker has a stake in Ray and Any of Us Saturday, Dec. 3, 8 p.m. labor/black mobilizations like last Lauren's fight. Had the CWA mobilized The demonstration was a point of year's November 27 mobilization in its ranks and the rest oflabor to shut Ma YWCA, 15th and Webster intersection for deep and desperate Washirigton, D.C. The LBL demon Bell down, had those picket lines been Oakland concerns of militant blacks and union strated with the Spartacist League in massive, militant displays of workers The Labor Black League for Social Defense ists. Striking workers came out, inte September demanding "Vengeance for power, racists like Michelle "Scab" and the Spartacist League invite you to a grated couples came and brought their Patrick Mason!" Hansen would not be crossing those party to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Spartacist League-initiated Labor! kids. Many participants were people Among the unionists who provided lines let alone attacking the workers on Black Mobilization that drove the KKK out of who have had direct or close family monitors to help ensure an orderly them. Washington, D.C. last November 27. Join us in stopping the racist anti-labor frame-up of acquaintance with cop violence. One march and rally were members of the At the rally. the videotape crew Lauren Mozee and Ray Palmiero. interracial couple told us of their ILWU. lAM, Teamsters and Steelwork interviewed Frank Grinnon, a district Call (415) 835-1535 firsthand experience with the racist ers. These brothers know that the attack fl'presentative of the International Richmond cops: the husband, a black on Ray and Lauren is an attack on the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 6 WORKERS VANGUARD Oakland and one of the endorsers of the Lauren Mozee and Ray Palmlero demonstration. He observed: Must Not Go to Jail! "I feel that the old labor slogan of "An injury to one is an injury to all' is not being practiced these days very much hy lahar. And that if the company can get away with victimizing Lauren and Ray. it's just the fir,t step. They go after the _."" .... _oJ\>lo:l_ more militant worker" and then comes Stop the Racist Anti-Labor Frame-Up! next contract. which I anticipate a '-"aur"""""'''''_Fb;P~lm'''''',membet1I:lf1.l'>eeon.m...n",atlontWOrlc.'''c1A''''r1ClI.have been f'red ,,"om lh40lr jobs _ !ace up lQ ~l I'M'" "k/l 10 sl..le ~ fO<' 18 NOVEMBER 1983 7 proceeded without incident. Successful Benefit Held-Co~ Harassment Protested This pattern of provocations and harassment. designed to spark an "incident" which the police can use to jU'lify cop violence, is strikingly similar Muhammad Ali Backs Defense to ! hat used to set up and dest roy the Biack Panther Party. of which Mozee was a ten-year member. Partisan De fense Committee attorney Valerie C. of Bay Area Phone Workers West states she is preparing a formal complaint to the Oakland chiefofpolice and has arranged a meeting with Muhammad Ali. former world heavy Telephone scab manager, one Michelle men stated, four Oakland Police De Oakland mayor Lionel Wilson to weight boxing champion, has joined Rose Hansen. Lauren defended herself, partment squad cars descended on the discuss this dangerous and disturbing with hundreds of labor officials, local 'and her companion and fellow unionist area in an obvious attempt to intimidate pattern of police harassment. unions, black and student organizations Ray Palmiero came to her assistance. and harass those in attendance. Two Defense motions for discovery and and concerned individuals in backing Now they are fired from their jobs, squad cars tracked Mozee and Pal dismissal of charges will be heard at the the defense of Lauren Mozee and Ray denied unemployment and face up to miero, who were accompanied by an next court appearance, December I, Palmiero, two Bay Area phone workers four years each in state prison, while the armed security guard hired by the 1983. 10 a.m., Department 2 of the fired and facing racist cop frame-up racist scab still has her job. Efforts by Defense Committee, to a nearby res Hayward Municipal Court, 24405 charges resulting from last summer's the Defense Committee, including an taurant and three squad cars were Amador, Hayward. CA. A press confer three-week national strike against the October 29 march and rally at the waiting outside when they departed. ence will be held on the courthouse steps phone company. Contacted in Chicago, Alameda County Courthouse of 400 Earlier, at the October 29 march and at 9:30 a.m., immediately preceding the Ali, once stripped of his title for refusing mainly black trade unionists, have rally, Defense Committee spokesmen hearing. The Phone Strikers Defense the draft and renowned for his state already resulted in the District Attor stated that Oakland motorcycle cops Committee is organizing to fill the ment "No Viet Cong ever called me ney's office dropping the serious "great deliberately grazed three marchers with courtroom with supporters of Mozee Nigger," endorsed the demands of the bodily injury" clause from the felony their bike mirrors and that another and Palmiero to deliver the message to Phone Strikers Defense Committee: charges against the couple. protester was hit in the back by a cop's the D.A. once again: DROP THE that Mozee and Palmiero be reinstated Last night, November 14, over 250 handlebar midway through the march CHARGES! STOP THIS RACIST, at their jobs with full back pay, that all supporters of this defense campaign down 14th Street. When the march A:\TI-LABOR FRAME-UP! FREE charges against them and all phone packed "Your Place" blues club in arrived at the Fallon Street entrance to DOM AND JOBS BACK FOR strikers be dropped and that amnesty be Oakland for a spirited benefit. Top Bay the courthouse, some six motorcycle LAUREN AND RAY!!! granted to all victimized phone strikers. Area blues artists Maxine Howard, cops dangerously roared through the Support for the victimized interracial Sonny Rhodes. The Right Kind and crowds of demonstrators on the street. -Phone Strikers Defense Committee couple has snowballed as word has Malik and the Plus Factor performed in This attempt to "clear" the street 15 November 1983 spread of the racist, anti-labor frame-up a dynamic show broadcast live over contravened a prior agreement between they face. On August 10 while on a radio station KPFA. Over $2,000 was the march organizers and police depart (For further information, contact: picket line in San Leandro, Mozee was raised in ticket sales and donations. ment officials. Despite the efforts at Phone Strikers Defense Committee, called a "BLACK NIGGER BITCH" Following the successful fund raiser, provocation by the police, the protesters (415) 763-1382, or Valerie C. West, and struck in the face by a Pacific however. Defense Committee spokes- maintained their discipline and the rally Attorney, (415) 832-1225.) Soviet News Agency "Yes to Lauren and Ray-No to Racist TASS Reports Anti-Union Reaganite Frame-Up!" ILWU Local 10: Injury people's movements throughout this Bay Area Defense Rally world. The ILWU says yes to Lauren to One Is Injury to All Mozee and Ray Palmiero. No to SAN FRANCISCO, 30 October pointed out that the gross racist· Statement by William Bancroft. racist, anti-union Reaganite frame (TASS)-Angrily condemning polit violence and political repression in Secretary-Treasurer. ILWU Local10, ups. We the members of the ILWU ical and racist repression, which has the U.S. is a direct consequence ofthe on behalfof Local 10 Local 10 stand with Mozee and Palmiero in their fight for justice. An assumed enormous proportions in reactionary politics of the Reagan The officers and membership of injury to one is an injun to aU. the U.S. since the Reagan adminis administration, of its acts directed the International Longshoremen's tration came to power, the workers of against the interests of national and Warehousemen's Union, Local Oakland poured out to demonstrate minorities in the country, against 10 stand in solidarity with fellow Los Angeles NAARPR and rally. They called for an end to every American worker. trade unionists Lauren Mozee and Backs Lauren and Ray the persecution ofLauren Mozee and "We see the campaign in support Ray Palmiero in their struggle Ray Palmiero, dark-skinned workers of the trade-union activists L. Mozee against the racists and anti-union Statement bI' Rose Chernin and at the local telephone office, who have and R. Palmiero as part and parcel of actions of Pacific Telephone S. Deacon Alexander fallen victims to undisguised tyranny. our struggle against the offensive of Company. The entire executive board of the The administration drove Lauren the forces of racism and reaction," The struggle against racism and for National Alliance Against Racist and and Ray out of their jobs and even Donald Andrews, head of the equality, the struggle against anti Poiitical Repression, L.A. Branch, is plans to put them on trial simply for "League of Black Workers," told the unionism and for workers solidarity in full support of the Phone Strikers being trade-union activists and [for TASS correspondent. "The police, are not new to us in the ILWe. in general and specifically Lauren the fact] that in August of this year FBI. courts-all this vast repressive Threats of violence and judicial Mozee and Ray Palmiero. We they took an active part in the apparatus is used by the ruling circles lynchings have been part of the demand that all charges be dropped nationwide strike of the workers and for the defense of the interests of the arsenal used against us. These wea and Ray and Lauren are returned to employees of the telephone com employers. We should counterpose pons did not deter us then ... they worl\. with full back pay as labor is pany "American Telephone and to it our solidarity, resolutely up shall not deter us now. The attack on our first line of defense and the racist Telegraph." holding our rights," D. Andrews Lauren Mozee by Michelle Rose attack on this fine couple is but a part Addressing the rally speakers pointed out. • Hansen, a scab/manager of Ma Bell, of a pattern to break the back of and the subsequent bringing of organized labor. criminal charges against her and Ray We congratulate the Defense Palmiero should come as no surprise Committee, the union and all in to most of us. The San Leandro volved for their heroic effort in this police department and the Alameda matter. Our endorsement will mean County D.A.'s office are tools for the that a fund-raiser is just around the racist, anti-union, anti-life policies of corner. We are sorry that we could Marxist Working-Class Biweekly of the Spartacist League the Reagan administration. The not be here today. Our spirit offight same forces that now seek to jail back is with you. I Subscribe Now! 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New York 10116 (617) 492-3928 (213) 663-1216 (202) 636-3537 8 WORKERS VANGUARD ~ .. 4 November 1983 •II 26 October 1983 • NEWS JOUR_" DEDICATED TO THE CAUSE or THE 'EOm nnlCuur I ,-._- I (rA1L~rFORnlfA}VO~(E ~ She Sun " c,.. .. @>WStSlli>OO, O~H II THlllnllllNE YUR$ Of SERVICE TO THE HHiRE BAY UEA =' ~ Ii '0811S11En.HIlY 'II SAil FUIIlC:'C..(j C>li.nQUil Bmm1 November 1983 Phone workers rally support -_· .... _ THE TRIBUNE 5 30 October 1983 ; Two phone workers' supporters stage protest '! think this is c 8, LH'.r On I, continuing vendetta n.. rre.w by the DA's office over people who About 200 supporters of two fired Pacific J RAY PALMIERO AND LAUREN MOZEE were even Telephone Co. workers rallied in front of the Accused of ....ult on phone comp.ny pick.tllna associated with the Alameda County Courthouse Saturday in a militant Black Panther display aimed at getting the workers' Jobs back Party. This ,s a and the criminal charges against them dropped. case of The workers are Ray Palmiero and Lauren Fired activists Mississippi-style Mozee; fired on Aug. 30 because Mozee allegedly justice' broke the nose of a supervisor, Michelle Rose Hansen, when Hansen crossed a picket hne at a charge racism Pacific Telephone office in San Leandro. The incident, which occurred Aug. 10 during B)' DoD Martinez the strike by the Communications Workers of Examhi~r staff ""Titer Union backs fired strikers America, involved Palmiero when, he said, he OAKL\...'\TI - An inte-rra('ial couple-. fired from their lntervened in the scuffle. The two union members OAKLAND ~ Communication through the union bargaining Pacific Telt'phone Co. jobs and faCing assault ('harges after initially were charged with felony usault with Workers of America Local 9410 is procedure Endorsers of October 29 March and Rally to Stop the Racist Anti-Labor Frame-Up of Lauren Mozee and Ray Palmiero Plrtlll Lilt of Endorlara John F. Gardenhire, English Department,' Laney College, Oakland, CA Richard Oba. Recording Secretary-Treasurer. AFSCME Local 444. Oakland. CA AFSCME Loc.1 444, Oakland, CA John George, Chairman. Alameda County Board of Supervisors Father William O'Donnell, Pastor, St. Joseph the Workman Church,' Berkeley, CA AFSCME Local 2620 Kenneth Glbbont, Recording Secretary, lAM Local 284,* Oakland, CA Mike Oltzantkl, Trustee, USWA Local 1010,* East Chicago. IN AFSCME Loc.1 3235. Los Angeles. CA \, J. Lance GUmer. Executive Editor, Reporter Publlcations* Martin Ornelat, Senator, Associated Students: UC Berkel€y Carolyn Dukes Alexander, President, Laney Chapter, Council of Black American. Ann Fagan Ginger, Attorney, Berkeley, CA Lauro Pacheco, Senator, Associated Students: UC Berkeley Affairs: Oakland, CA Harvey Gomez, Treasurer, Associated Students,* Laney College, Oakland. CA Partls.n Defenle Committee S. Deacon Alexander, Director, NAARPR, Los Angeles Chapter Francisco S. Gonzalez, Grie..... er, USWA Local 1010.* East Chicago, IN Joe Patrick. Instructor, Economics, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill. CA Robert L. Allen, Director of Ethnic Studies, Mills College, Former Editor, Black Scholar* Stan Gow, Executive Board, ILWU Local 10 and Editor. Longshore MIlitant. Peace & Freedom Party, SF Central Committee, San Francisco. CA N. Amare, Afro-American Studies Department,* UC Berkeley San Francisco. CA People for Juttlce, Richmond. CA American POltal Workers Union. Oakland, CA Saundra Graham, Massachusetts State Representative and Cambridge City Councillor, John L. PettuI, Extended Opportunity Programs & Services Counselor. Laney College, Barbara E. Andrewt, Legislative Chair, CWA Local 9410 and Chair, Finance Committee, Cambridge, MA Oakland, CA Congressman Ronald V. Dellums, San Francisco, CA Wlllla Gray, Professor. Social Work Department,' San Francisco State University Martha Phllllpl, Spartaclst Candidate for Oakland City Council, 1983 Dr. M,H. Anwar, Author, Memories of Afghanistan Frank Grlnnon, District Representative. ORTT/IBEW Local 1011,' Oakland, CA Phone Strikers Defenle Committee Be«lna Aptheker, A~T UCSC Local· and Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz Brian Groleclote, President. Associated Students,* Laney College, Oakland. CA Andy Pollack, Steward, CWA Local 4309.* Cle..... eland, OH Or. Cecilia Arrington, EthniC Studies Chairperson, Merritt College. Oakland, CA Joe E. Gutierrez. Griever, USWA Local 1010.* East Chicago, IN Jim Quillin, Secretary-Treasurer, California Conference of Machinists." Oakland, CA Astoclatlon of Graduate Student Employees, UC Berkeley William D. H.asch, President, Graphic Arts International Unl0n Local 507.' Madison. Wi J.W. Reid, Professor, Afro-American Studies,' Merritt College, Oakland CA Beverly Axelrod. Civil Rights Lawyer, San Francisco, CA Harvard-Radcliffe Black Studentl Alloclatlon. Cambridge, MA Revolution.ry Communllt League (internalionalllt), New Haven, CT Reuben Barr. Veteran, Abraham Lincoln Brigade: San Francisco, CA Harvard-Radcliffe Democr.tlc Soclallstt of America, Cambridge, MA AI Richmond. Former Editor. daily People's World,' San Francisco, CA Bay Area Enforcers Van Club, Richmond. CA Jamel H. Heard, AFT Cook County Teachers Union,' Chicago. tL Wilson C. Rllet, Jr., Member, O,akland City Council Tom Beardlley, General P.-esident. APWU, Oakland Local Erma Henderton. Detrol1 City Council President Georgia l. Roberti. Executive Board. Norfolk NAACP,' Norfolk, VA Jefferl Beaty. Black Student Union' Laney College. Oaklar"ld. CA Reverend Will L. Herzfeld, Minister, Bethlehem Lutheran Church: Oakland, CA Jim Robertton, National Chairman, Spartacist League Fred Beauford. Afro-American Studies Department: UC BerKeley Percy Hlntzen, ASSistant Professor. Afro·American Studies Department: UC Berkeley Alma Roblnlon. Executi ..... e Director, Bay Area Lawyers for the Arts' Willie lee Bell, Chairman. Civil Rights Committee. lAM Local 739 Oakland. CA Diane Hirshberg, Senator, Associated Students: UC Berkeley Ana M.rla Roblet, Vice President, Pre-Health Club,' Laney College. Oakland CA Black Student Alliance. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA lAM B.y Are. Olltrlct Lodge 115, Oakland, CA Darling D. Rockett. Steward, CWA Local 4309: Cleveland, OH Black Student Union. Contra Costa College, Richmond. CA lAM Local 284 Executive Board, Oakland, CA Ronald J. ROle. Alameda County Central Labor Council Delegate, tAM Local 284' Frederick Blum, Chapter Executive Committee, University Professionals of IllinOIS AFT lAM Local Lodge 739. Oakland, CA AI ROlsl. President, UnIted Teachers of Oakland, AFT Local 771,' Oakland, CA Local 4100." Chicago State University, Chicago. IL Kathy Ikegaml, Executive Board, CWA Local 9410 and Head, Militant Action Caucus Norm Roth. Past President. UAW Local 6,' Chicago. IL Domenlc Bozzotto, President. Hotel and Restaurant Employees Local 26,' Boston, MA San Francisco, CA Michael Rotkln, AFT UCSC Local member and Santa Cruz City Councilmember Richard Bradley, Spartacist Candidate for San Francisco Board of Supervisors. 1982 ILWU Local 10, San Francisco, CA Bobby Ruth, Alderman. 2nd Ward. Chicago, IL Allan Brill. Director, San FranCISco Interns and Residents Association,' Jane Jacklon. Human Rights Acti ..... ist, Gray Panthers,' Oakland, CA SEIU Local 535, Alameda County Ch.pter San Francisco, CA Philippa Jackson, Cuttural ActiVISt, Washington, D.C SEIU LOCi' 616. Oakland, CA Bonnie Brodie, Editor. Young Spartacus Randy Johnele. Senior Field Representative. SE1U Local 535, Oakland. CA Dennis L. Serrette, Steward and Former Vice President. CWA Local 1101 and Former Cleophat T. Brown. Executive Board, NAACP,* Richmond. CA AI Johnson. President. ATU Local 192,' Oakland, CA President, NY Coalition of Black Trade Unionists' Henry A, Bryant, Chairperson, Black Studies Department: Laney College Oakland. CA Clyde Johnlon. President, Black Employees Association,* Los Angeles, CA Charles Sh.ln, President. Berkeley campus AFT Local 1795,' Berkeley. CA Leonard Buford, Treasurer, American Muslim Mission Center,~ Richmond, CA Geraldine Johnlon. President, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists,' San Francisco CA Dennis Shaltuck, Gne"er, USWA Local 1010,' East ChIcago. IN John Carr. President, ILWU Local 10, San Francisco,' CA Nelson N. Johnlon. Area Spokesperson. Communist Workers Party,' Greensboro, NC Barbara Sheldon. Chief Steward, WFT·SWEP Local 3271,' Madison, WI Reginald R. Carrington. President, ILA Local 1458." Norfolk. VA Walter Johnson, President. Department Store Employees Union Local 1100. C.rl Shier. Retired UAW International Rep and Chair of UAW Local 6 Retired Workers Patricia Carroll. Lecturer, San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA Chapter' Desmond Carson, President, Black Students in Health Association,' UC Berkeley Oliver A. Jonel. Attorney, Oakland, CA Jim Shoch. Western Regional Coordinator, Democratic Socialists of America" Rose Chernin, Chairperson, NAARPR, Los Angeles Chapter Ed K.rtsen. Candidate for President of TWU Local 100: New York. NY Dan Siegel, Attorney, Oakland, CA Sherrl Chleta, Secretary~Treasurer,Hotel and Restaurant Workers Local 2,' Florynce Kennedy; Co-Founder. Black Women United for Political Action,' Sarah Slaughter. Guide, USWA Local 1010: East Chicago, IN San Francisco. CA New York, NY Bern.rd Smallwood. Executive Board, lAM Local 1518,' Oakland, CA Robert Chin, Head of Asian Studies Program: Merritt College, Oakland, CA C.B. King. Civil RIghts Lawyer, Albany, GA _ Bernadette Smith, Business Manager, Northern California C.B Club' Jackie Clark. General Executive Board. ILWU Local 6,' San Francisco. CA Arthur Klnoy. Professor of Law. Rutgers University, Newark, NJ Michael J. Smith, Business Rep, Hospital Workers Local 250,' Oakland CA Clyde Cleveland, Councilman. Detroit City Council. Detroit. MI Francesca Kugler, President. Berkeley Feminist Alliance' Rusty Smith. Steward, SEIU Local 715,' Redwood City. CA Diana Coleman, Spartacist Candidate for San Francisco Board of SupervIsors. Labor Black league for Socl.1 Defente M. Spencer. Secretary-Treasurer, AFSCME Local 3235, Los Angeles, CA 1980 and 1982 James T. Lafferty, ACLU Founder and Former Chair, Oakland County, Ml Bruce M. S1. Cyr. Vice President. AFSCME Local 2620 and Executive Board AFSCME Colin Cooper, Senator. Associated Students.* UC Berkeley EI Learned. President. lAM Local 824,' Richmond, CA Council 57" . David Creque. Vice President. United Teachers of Oakland, A~T Local 771' Kerry M. Lewll, President, African Students A'ssociation,' UC Berkeley Thomat Sulll....n, President, USWA Local 1304,' Emeryville, CA CWA Local 9410, San Francisco, CA Richard Lewontln, Chaired Professor, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Jan Sunoo. Business Agent, Teamsters Local 278,' San Francisco, CA CWA Local 9415 Execull... e Bo.rd. Oakland, CA Harvard University. Cambridge. MA James W. Sweeney, Member, Berkeley City Council Audrey Daniell, First Vice President. AFSCME Local 444, Oakland, CA Timothy Ligolky, Executive Board. lAM Local 284,' Richmond. CA Re...erend Ron Swlther, Easter Hill United Methodist Church,' Richmond, CA Betty L. D.row. President. Wisconsin State Employees Union Local 634,' Madison. WI Ronald J, Lind. Director of OrganiZing, United Food and Culinary Workers Local 428' Ron.ld TakakI, AFT Local 1474,' Professor of Ethnic Studies. UC Berkeley Margot Dathlell. Department of Sociology and Afro-American Studies,' Laney College, San Jose. CA Ray Tala... era. Executive Officer, Teamsters Local 85: San Francisco, CA Oakland, CA Paul Litton, Assistant Griever. USWA Local 1010,' East Chicago, IN Ron Tenlnty. Business Agent Teamsters Local 315: Richmond, CA Angela Y. Cavlt. Co-Chair, National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repress;on" Ed Logue, Jr., Union Representative, lAM Local 824,' Richmond, CA Cliff Leo Tillman, Peralta Student Trustee. Oakland, CA Danny Da...lt. Alde~man, 29th vVard. Chicago, IL Casale Lopez, Community Activist. Oakland. CA Robert Treuh.U, Attorney, Oakland. CA Ignacio De La Fuente. Business Manager, Molders Local 164,' Oakland, CA Conrad Lynn, Ci ..... l1 Rights Attorney, New York, NY Ronald Tyelky, PreSident National Association of Letter Carners, Golden Gate Branch, -~Ronald V. Dellums, Member of Congress M.e J. Magdaluyo, Filipino ... Amefican Collegiate Endeavor,' Former CORE Member Local 214' Paul Demplter, PreSident, Sailors Union of the Pacific: San Francisco CA Maryann M.haffey, Detroit City Cour"lcilmember United Tenant Action Council, Inc.. Los Angeles, CA Department Store Employees Loc.11100. San Francisco CA Kuntlma M.kldl, Professor of Political Science. Atlanta University. Atlanta. GA Lloyd K. Vandever, PreSident. UE Local 1412.' Oakland. CA Frank Donner, Attorney, New York, NY William M. Mandel, Author and Lecturer Howard Wallace, Co-Chair, Lesbian,'Gay Labor Alliance: San Francisco CA H.rry Edwardl, Department of Sociology,' UC Berkel~y Arvaughn Manning. Vice PreSident, Associated Students: Merritt College. Oakland, CA Syl... la Welnlteln. Member, National Organization for Women,' San Francisco, CA Jim Egglelton, Labor Attorney. Oak.land, CA Tom Meyer. National Lawyers Guild and Member. Racial Justice in Richmond,' J.ck Welntr.ub. Past President. Teamsters Local 85.' San Francisco, CA Halford H. Fairchild, Chairman, Afro-American Studies,' UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Richmond. CA Bobble J. Williams, President. CWA Local 9415,' Oakland, CA Robert Farrell. Councilman, Eighth District. Los Angeles, CA Clift Mezo. Vice President. USWA Local 1010,' East Chicago, IN J.A. Williams, Instrucwr, Laney Coilege. Oakiand, CA Tim Fernandez. Vice President Painters Local 376,' ValleJO, CA Michael Mezo. Grle..... er, Outer Guard, USWA Local 1010,' East Chicago. IN John WIlliams, Staff Reporter. California VOrce" Marvin A. Foreman, Secretary~Treasurer,Hotel Employees anj Restaurar,t ~pioyees Archlaus l. Motley, Sr., President, Faculty Senate.* Laney College, Oakland CA Peter Wooltton, Genera! Executl'/e Board ILWU Local 6' and Merr,ber Vi 'ta'll Caucus. Local 23: Norfolk, VA Anllon Nadar, President, Black Student Union,' Merritt College. Oakland. CA Oakland, CA Jelle FOlter, Jazz Vocalist. San Francisco. CA N.tlonal Alliance Against Racltt and Pollllcal Reprelllon, LOl Angeles Chapter Elaine Yoneda. President. \LV/U Auxiliary No 16,' San Francisco CA Richard Frater. HistoriC American Trotskyist and Member, Democratic Sociaiists of National Altoclatlon of Letter Carriers, Branch 2200 Executive Bo.rd Pasadena, CA Michael Zaharakll, Region Organizer. Socialist Party. USA' America,' Los Angeles. CA Nallonal Conference of Black L8wyers, Ba, Area Chapter Freedom Soclallit Party. San Francisco, CA National L.wyers Guild, e.y Are. Ch.pter 'Organlzation listed for identifica1io" purposes on:y William F. Freeman. First Vice President, NAACP,' Oakland. CA J.B. Nellandl. Past President. AFT Local 1474,' UC Berkeley Veronlka S. Fuklon, Member. Berkeley City Council" Gene Nelten. Member, Revolutionary Socialist League: San Francisco, CA We want to make It very clear that these endorse,s do not necessarl/y agree in any Fred Gaboury, Editor, Labor Toaav: Chicago. IL Judd Newman, Steward. CWA Local 4309,' Cleveland, OH particular with the views expressed by the initiators of this mObl!,zarior~ William G.llet, FIrst Vice Chairman, Gflevance Committee, USWA Loca! 1010, Eugene "GuI" Newport, Mayor of Berkeley East Chicago. IN Ann Noel. Regional Vice President. National Lawyers Guild' 18 NOVEMBER 1983 9 United Steelworkers have been on strike Speeches ... where I work for five months. that's 150 (continued from page 12) days. The Steelworkers have been on strike down in Arizona for four months, their robes in their brown paper bags since the Ist of July. They're fighting and scuttle through the basement of the' Phelps Dodge-the copper barons. The White House [oheers]. So we thank you, Steelworkers are on strike at Judson because this is where the power is. We Steel. they've been on strike here in have the real power. We have to Emeryville for two months. They all organize it, and we have to use it. And send you their greetings. Lauren and thank you very much for coming out. Ray. and we're going to stand behind you. .1 ~ . Willie lee Bell Ed Kartsen Chairman, Civil Rights Committee of NYC transit worker, candidate t€N'£ lAM Local 739 for president of TWU Local 100 Brothers and Sisters, it was told to us The first thing I'd like to say. I'd like that the '80s would undoubtedly be a to read a telegram which was signed by decade of serious challenges to our over 156 transit workers, a telegram to .determination for continued progress. the president of the Pacific Telephone & Now more than ever we must maintain Telegraph Company: vigorous and dedicated leadership to "We, the undersigned members of Local guarantee a secure and prosperous 100 of the Transport Workers Union in future for our membership and the New York City, demand that Lauren peoples of the world. We have learned M07ee and Ray Palmiero not go to jail. from our experiences and we've been Drop all charges! Stop the racist anti labor frame-up' Down with South taught that we must unite in order to African-style justice! Freedom, jobs survive. That is why I say I'm glad that back for Malee and Palmiero! Picket you have cast aside your prejudices ·lines mean don't cross!" against one another and stand united I'd also like to say we have collected over against this overt act of suppression $100 so far in collecting money in directed toward poor, working people helping in this defense. and minorities. We will not tolerate this The bottom line is the picket line. The damnable act to deny us our right to picket line must be respected, it must be PATRICK MASON CHARLES BRISCOE defend ourselves on the picket line. And backed up by the force necessary to BORN 1977 I say we must see and stop the racist BORN 1941 galvanize the thousands of trade-union MURDERED 1983 anti-labor frame-up against Ray and militants that can ensure that when MURDERED 1979 against Lauren! Reagan mobilizes the kind of force that he used against PATCO or the type of John George force he used against Grenada, that he Chairman of Alameda County Board can be repulsed effectively. We cannot of Supervisors let Ray and Lauren go to jail! Labor You know, when I heard that we had solidarity, militancy and the picket line Ed Kartsen a labor dispute on the picket line, and mean nothing if these people go to jail. organizer, legitimately organizing strik Alameda County know as we're letting my friend, they told her, or called her, a And picket lines mean you better not ing the telephone company in order to the Reagan administration know that "black bitch." Now, that's fighting cross! The' phone company's trying to secure some just rights for all of the people in this country will no longer words. If we don't fight back for erode that tradition. They're trying to workers of the telephone company and allow them to take away their rights. somebody saying something like that, say that management can dance across for all people within the labor move then that's an assault, an insult to all picket lines because they're manage ment. It cannot be allowed for her to black women. We ought to slap that ment. Well, let it be known that a Diana Coleman fight that battle alone. Former Spartacist Party candidate for person in the face [cheers]. management scab is no different from One of the beautiful things about the We need to tell thedoggone telephone any other kind of scab. And let it be San Francisco Board of Supervisors people who are here today is that it Brothers and sisters, I want you all to company to dismiss this case and known that a management scab is just as is a broad-based coalition of people come over to this party, because not withdraw it. fragile as any other kind of scab. [Voice throughout this community. We have Now here it is, they lose their jobs, in the crowd: "Scabs must go!"] only are we going to have some fun but over in San Francisco a number of we're going to plan some organizing they don't have any money, they've got SCABS MUST GO! SCABS MUST people who have gathered together to survive. The only way for them to GO! SCABS MUST GO! that's going to come next. And you out around the problems in Grenada, and there are the people we want to do that survive is for us to support them. We And this was a racist scab at that. So the fact that the same administration have got to be up front. We have got to picket lines mean don't cross. We will organizing because we know that you who started a full court press against the are definitely the hard core. Because you be up front because this issue is more not let these people go to jail. Labor labor unions is now taking the military than just two individuals. An injury to must continue to fight from here. have stood out here in the rain. We have industrial complex and moving troops had more speakers, we have also had one, they say, is an injury to all. But a Freedom and jobs for Mozee and into a small country like Grenada. victory for one is also a victory for all. Palmiero! Smash the South African some more rain than we expected, too. There are battles going on right here So you are the people we want to come And that is what we are talking about. style justice! Smash this anti-labor in the city of Oakland. The county of Not just two individuals. frame-up! over there. Alameda is rearranging its budget to We came out here today to say that This is a labor dispute. Because all support the sheriff's department, to Lauren Mozee and Ray Palmiero must workers, all workers are being threat Wilson Riles, Jr. build new jails, in order to put more of not go to jail. Not for one hour, and not ened. Health benefits are being eroded. you, more of the people who are Oakland City Council for one minute! The government and the Plant closures are taking place. This It's my pleasure to join with you here struggling for their own rights, in jails in phone company, in their usual alliance, case is a manifestation ofthis war on the in this struggle. I think one ofthe things Santa Rita, and in the jail down here workers of America. are trying to turn the victims into the that people have learned over the that's just built in the city of Oakland. criminals. But ourcampaign has already I am joining with the people, Rayand struggles of the '60s and over the long That's the same military-industrial Mozee, until we can win this case. And had some successes, and Ray outlined history of struggle here in this country philosophy that's being passed on. And that. The phone company is backing Ron Dellums used to tell me, and I will and around the world is that we cannot the people who are going to be out join you in that struggle, and I'm going away from Michelle "Scab" Hansen, allow one individual or group in the today, people who are in solidarity with and the District Attorney is taking a step to start right now by going down on the struggle to be isolated, and to fight that you and your concern, are out today street. backwards from all his charges which he battle by themselves. Because that's the attempting to get people to sign peti cannot prove, which he knows are lies. tactic of the right, that's the tactic of the tions to fight back the unfair, unjust Tom Sullivan So the frame-up of Lauren and Ray is Republican administration. They will redistricting of the boundaries for the one more in a long, long list of racist President, United Steelworkers pick the particular most vulnerable East Oakland Board of Supervisors atrocities and union-busting. And that's Local 1304 members of the group and then they will seat. The enemy is the same, the battle is right, there's a broader picture to this. I want you to know that the Steel move on from there to attack others. the same, and onward with the march so Reagan and his millionaire cronies, they workers are with you. Lauren and Ray. Here we have a black female labor that we can let the District Attorney of hate black America and they hate the unions. But I will tell you, you cannot fight Reagan with Democrats. We need labor action to bring down Reagan. Does anyone here think that Walter "Mundane" MondaJe is going to stand up for the minorities and the working people against Reagan reaction? [Cries from the crowd: "No!"] Walter Mon dale, the weepy. warmongering clone protege of professional anti-communist Hubert Humphrey. r1l tell you. brothers and sisters. you gotta be kidding. There has to be a better alternative in this country for us. [From the crowd: "There WV Photos is. A workers party!"] Willie Lee Bell John George Tom Sullivan Wilson Riles, Jr. We of the Spartacist League intend to 10 WORKERS VANGUARD build a mass, class-struggle workers €ommunicationli WOrktrli of ~mtrica AF1.·ClO party. Not the kind that simply partici LOCAL 9415 pates in ejections but a fighting workers 1131 Parilllouloymd _. Oaklcmd, Calliol"Qia 94606 party, a multiracial working-class party 134·941 S (Ar.a that can lead the workers and the oppressed, and take power. We're not T'lat charges be dropped against Lauren MOzee and }{alillondo ionJ Palrniero and all other phone strlkers. This Local will give Wor~rj talking about cutting up a piece of the (gmmqnica1.. (j d.1:.::.::: pie. The working people produced full support to the legal defense efforts for members"of thlS LOCAL 1'10.9.10 everything in this country, and that's IOCdl and all other phone workers who have been legally 240 stCONe STlHT . 171.9"10 SAN "'-"N(ISo(O. CAL1~''''I''' 9..10.5 what we want. We want everything! We victimized in C~lifo[nia and around the country. want our own workers government, and .5e;ctt'~.b<:-[" 13 ::-';5 } .- you need a workers party to get it. r------r---.-'----- ~_. _ Vl..:e P.es_::er,t Ha:-le Ma:~iett made U"!e :o~lc;.,...:.r,:; .~,~t_:) ...; When the KIan endorsed Reagan. let I~ fl-SR"\ "; roc','':;;' that C",'A :o::-a~ -;;.;~ based ':Jr; .... ':">ci:.:.;on ~~ j .. '::= , me tell you something, they knew what '1!'-: ..... ~~j NAVAL AIRC,~.~~.! ..~,~..~GE, No, 739 anj .., cor.t":'.""'~a.1c·e ~.~ :." p::S": :":v"- -.:::t'+- ~,";':: they were doing. They knew! And right I 1!':'; a!1m.:;·:.be:s, q::;, c,: :e~-: .... ~ Sc.i;; : .... :; -;.-t=:' .... ,,~.-j.:.j ~~~ '"~:.:."::.::~:::::':;,:,::...::.::'.:,::u !~E.--::: :.): ,::;.;; ,71e.':".:;e .... s :"ci:";.-t.:,-. ,~:;:t::-.,,-, .j-:~ p;;;: F;;,~.-::.;.-=~;:. r: c.:.C~: now Reagan-with a little shadowbox )C'LS W'.;.~.~ ::.-'~. ':;;f1.:.k-pci:; ; ... ~ ·.;:~e:5 6-;31.';5:: ':'oc._--:-,""; ...... 1[>'" CAUr"... , .. ing in Congress from the Democrab _. .'tfCZEE a.-;~' R.l';f' ?3 •.~.~:: :c a:,,=.:ci d."".d 3 . ..;,."t";::::·5~ __ DC; ';:3.__ :"': I ~b tc d~. ;.-.".c'.__ e 5:: .. k",,:::>.' (he's hacked up by the Democrats)--is I CX-""td.x-: I 1.):a: SL,:'t,';; Cir.J 5rot..her5: St":::;;,~,~t'C a ,C ..i'":a,c ~,7i(,~s~,:> :.:.':;~~:;' trying to lead us into a thermonuclear A3 ;'w mo..-, ':t~5 l..ccal ~ has endcrseci t~ ~fE'!~ Fcmd :'~,r tte d;>~cr;se '1/ . cf :..oar..::", M::.zee .:inc. Ray PalFllero, two /Xl0"le \o,·orkerS'YT.0 have a-oe:"', Iltc-G ,:!",,~ -,..... ·;<.v lol/:~3..~._ ._. war which will blow up the whole earth. I ~. ..__.__. ~__._~_~_. ~._. _ Let me tell you something. hrothers and i fra"£"C. :lp crL 'O~::'1·10l.\S cr,arges for defent~ng tre'tiel\.oes fraT a 'v"1.o1er,t: ra:::.l'" I dS;3.i;ult. (ommunications Workers of ~mrri(a Arc sisters: Yuri Andropov may not be the Yc,;.; ~-~~ -i,l'"t shc.n2 iT1Y wtr~ that :.....Ju.~ ~ee, ....00 \o,"dS called a:"lack I [email protected] peopl~ tLlJ9Ci' t,.:.'c'"" ar~ s+:["..rl lr, t.he face by a f.hcre a:zrp~[-,y m:tr.al.]E'I' a-, a plcket best friend that black in this 1831 PaJ'"1r Bow.van:!. OalUand, Calilomio 501.606 CWA t~ ;"'.dt~CT,al be~ng country ever had, but I will tell you he is I lInt ;::w__ .:.:.':j r'f',---"","c""lt p,cne stnke, lS brO\:k;r.t '...if: 0". rru:tlple 04!» '%' v 834·9.15 (AreQ Cod. US) feJ:.Fj a.:;salilt ard battery margE's f.or ,~~fendlJlg hE>rself. Su\l1ar rnar'?-'S not the worst enemy. Because the worst have~~L brought ~r.st Ray Pal~J.'-'co, her C(pparll::r. and fell(),; UI'.lcr. ~r enemy is here at home. [Applause.] wh::a.""'e ;~o her aid. ooth faa:> eight-yedl pnsoc te['TtO; ex-. these tnrrped-up charges. Both Launm and Ray have b2en flrt.'d frOT' their Jill, dC.a c'erued So Ronald Reagan was willing to iihereas, tne CWA has proviaea ball anc: law'j'ers tef lTieilt[H::rs urerplO'jT!"ff\t teneflts. me caClst rnnaqcr s~~ll !~d" hc'~ Jet..'. Mozee and Palmlero; therefore G0 It sacrifice a lot of people in that 007 flight. ral:~..:i:r<; th"'rt',"~l: lj As part of t.r.e efforts to stc::p tr,lS ;'",-'L,t no, a :'""0:."'-' and he was willing to sacrifice a lot of :mrc:.'-. s.."1d rally in Gaidand ct. Cctoter 29th. Resolved, tr,at Ch'A Local '34lS Marines in Lebanon for an imperialist ASSEMBLE AT 11 A.M. SA~.Y, c,cr'-_'Xlrn 2'nl A; ~i;""'-.__A""T, en' iiALl the~E t~o memDer~ rt:·lr~,;,tatE:.'-':: JO~2 (,:.4'[l--j .10 WASHIl'CTCt-i SI""3.) MT.: MAPQ--j A; 12 t'U't~x ~ AU,,~ (1) demand that LJe to ,elr wlth full back pay, adventure. And now, to cover it up, he is CJltT.Y ~E F'ai A 1 P.M. RAU.Y. willing to go into tiny black Grenada nus mardl and rally has already been endor,:;ed by publlC ufflCl<1is, 1r.ducilng (2) request that the natIonal JOlOn seeK a~ioesty for all with 6,000 troops. We say this is an Jch1 George, Super'Vlsor Distrlct S, O:rlgresslTill1 Ron C€lh.lTs, Berk.eley' 5 Mayor strikers accused of pIcket lIne mlsconuuct, Gus Ne....p.xt, n\Jl12rous labor off1Clals, IT'u.nonty orgaruzat1cns and nany other". outrage! And we say this is an attempt to I urge you to J01n rre at the rally. PLEASE W!:AR YCUR Lt-;]CN JAa Believe me, in Grenada our sympathies (4) seeK a full report from tr.e natlon.:il unlOt; ot F:r0r;"s tv are with the Cubans who are there defend and reinstate striKers oel:lg pr ~te<.J ~i5'~~;~C[e arOU11~ 1-(~~ the country. fighting. I want to read you what they "'man Hoos . fT\:1l: Prcslderlt said from Radio Havana. They said that 1. p..• M. 6. A. W. "The Americans came in with fighter aircraft, with helicopters, with heavy QIli~"" and medium-caliber artillery and mor R R t I JiOOtAIl"",ZU,nk UtBl!. 7WfE"aIi tars. But at the last, a group of six ----_._------_.._----- ..~-_..__._"."- comrades, clutching our flag, continued tions against racist terror, be it at the fighting. At II: 17 our ambassador hands of the racists dressed in the white communicated. 'There is no further robes of the KKK, the blue uniforms of Cuban resistance. The fighters in the the cops or the black robes of the bosses' Statements at Press final redoubt did not surrender and gave courts. And, as black people in this their lives for their homeland'." And I country know, a goodly number of want to tell you something, these are our those who wear the white hoods at night Conference, October 27 brothers and sisters. These are our are wearing blue uniforms during the brothers and sisters out there! day. [Applause. Shouts: "Yeah!" So the same reactionary forces that "Right."] are trying to railroad Lauren and Ray Over the years there have been far too are pursuing armed aggression around many victims. We have the picture,S up the world. And I will tell you something: here of Patrick Mason, Charles Briscoe. U.S. imperialism's difficulties are our There have been so many, so many, opportunities, and we welcome them going back to Bobby Hutton. So many and we will take advantage of them. In victims. But this time we have a chance EI Salvador we say. "Military victory to to defend these two before they go to the leftist rebels in EI Salvador! No jail. before they get sent away by this negotiated sellout!" In ;'IIicaragua we government. [Voice in the crowd: "No say, "Kill the invaders!" The capitalist more victims!"] Lauren and Ray are fifth column must be smashed and the fighters. They went up to Richmond workers mobilized against the CIA's with the Labor Black League for Social war. And we call for defense of the Defense to fight against police brutality. WV Photos Soviet Union, the first workers state, They went over to San Francisco to Frank Tanner Father O'Donnell Norman Huntsman against imperialism. We have our demonstrate against South Africa's It's just blatantly unjust and unfair criticisms ofthe Soviet bureaucracy, but murder of the ANC black militants. Frank Tanner and immoral. And the issue is racism, one of them is that they don't send guns And they've fought for militant, class CWA Local 9410 which is the very evil that will bring to EI Salvador and MIGs to Nicaragua. struggle policies in the union. These are I'd just like to say that, first of all, this society down. The court's accept Why are our brothers and sisters in the kind of fighters we need more of! you are correct that our local, as well ing this case, it seems to me, is Central America fighting with battered And you have to fight for them now, as our union, views not only this case, corruptive of the courts. And I think rifles and old machetes? They need brothers and sisters, because they but the cases of others suffered in the public opinion is so necessary in this modern jet aircraft, and as far as I'm fought for all of us. cause of alleged picket line activities, case to bring the injustice of these concerned the Soviet Union ought to be So we say: "No way! Smash the racist as being very dangerous to the labor charges before the public. And to see providing it. [Cheers. Applause.] anti-labor frame-up! No South Africa movement in general, and especially that these two fine persons will be Defense of Cuba and the USSR style justice in Oakland! Freedom and when a case comes along with the exonerated. begins in El Salvador! And defense of jobs back for Lauren and Ray! And for racial overtones that we find in this Lauren Mozee and Ray Palmiero begins a workers government that will avenge case, which we find extremely repug right here with labor/black mobiliza- all our martyrs!". nant. That ourefforts should certain Norman Hunstman ly not slacken, but probably be I'm Norm Huntsman, I'm presi ~ < redoubled in dealing with this case, as dent of Local Lodge 739 of the :;,- well as all the other cases that are Machinists union, International As o" 0- pending for our people who some sociation of Machinists. In the march FINISH the CIVIL WAR! how suffered from alleged picket line Saturday you will recognize the incidents. Machinists by these jackets like the BLACK tbLIBERAT\ON THROUGH one that I'm wearing. We are out Father William O'Donnell raged. As a labor leader, we expect WORKERS REVOLUTION' I'm here to emphasize and to stress the establishment to attack us. That's the immorality of this action against old hat. But we cannot sit idly by Sf:,'-'T 4CIST~AGUE two workers and two union organiz while they attack our rank and file. Spartacist ers. Once you categorize thoughts We will not do that, we want to spokesman Diana Coleman and frame a person into violent protest. We will be there. And we with rally categories, then you can behave hope everybody, every unionist, chairman against them basically by being community person, anybody with Don Andrews, physically violent, by being juridical any sense of decency, will join us in Iy violent, by being morally violent. this march to protest this racist act. 18 NOVEMBER 1983 11 We publish below excerpts from the ._-~.> speeches at the October 29 Oakland march and rally to defend Lauren SToP THE RAelS Mozee and Ray Palmiero, fired phone workersfacingjail in a racist. anti-labor t:::! / FRAME frame-up. Other speakers at the rally ~ LAUREN MOZEE i included Victor Pamiroyan, Business J Agent, IL WU Local 6; Ann Fagan I: i MUST . ,.. ( Ginger. Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute; Father William O'Donnell, Church of St. Joseph the Workman; Ben Visnick, United Teachers Local 771; Tom Boot. Freedom Socialist Party; Tim Ligosky, Exec Board, lAM Local 284. Lauren Mozee Fired telephone worker facing years in prison for defending her union picket line and herselffrom racist management/scab attack I want to thank everybody. and I've had a drink under my belt so I'm a little calm now I had a frog in my ihro;;L and that washed it down. As ever: one k n•.'\\ s. I'm a victim of a raci,.t. ant:-'ahor fmme-up. Why? One. 'm :J. black woman. Two. Ra\ dnd I are an 'nterrcicial couple. fhree. I'm a militant--j said militanl-·trade union mm_~ji';.~!~~"'~ ist. [Voice from the crowd: "Right on. *"it w~'" 'NV Photo sister!" Applause.] A former member of Oakland, October 29-From left: Rally chairman Don Andrews, Ray Palmiero and Lauren Mozee lead chants: "Hey, the Black Panther Party lor many years. D.A.! Workers say: Hands Off Lauren and Rayl" And I'm a firm believer-I said firm believer-in socialism. I've always been support has been of great effect on the some degree. Now the fight isn't over. like to see worldwide. The kind of a fighter against racism and cop terror. District Attorney's office, let me tell and we have to keep fighting. and we democracy that slaughters thousands in and a fighter for unity of the working you. Ray is going to talk about that a want you all to be fighting with us, but El Salvador. the kind ofdemocracy that class against the bosses. Now, for these little bit more. our efforts have started to payoff. massacres Palestinians at Shatila and things and for doing my duty on the Ray and I aren't the only ones who And what I mean by that is, that, Sabra. That same kind of democracy picket lines by defending myself against face this kind of situation. On Wednes number one, the phone company has has tried to turn Lauren and me into this racist attack, and for defending my day, October 26th, in Oklahoma City (I already started to distance itself. from criminals. picket line and our jobs against those have a brother-in-law and a sister that this scab manager. There was an article Why? Because when we Were -on a who want to break the unions and take were deported there from General in the Oakland Post dated 26 October picket line, a scab manager hit Lauren, our jobs, I've been victimized. Motors Fremont), the Klan marched where, I quote. "Doug Jones of Pacific called her a "black nigger bitch," and We have been made a victim by the into the plant in full dress-hood. robes Telephone's Community Affairs De Lauren defended herself. And when people who hate blacks, unionists and and all-and worked on the assembly partment said he had just received a somebody attempted to get involved. I the whole working class. Blacks, union lines! Until my brother-in-law. my copy of the press release issued by the assisted her. Now, we've been fired, and ists and workers have a nght to take a brother and my sister stopped the line. Ad Hoc Committee and had only a we've been denied unemployment. stand in this country. That's what you [Applause. Chants from the crowd: vague idea of what the issue was about. We've got Lauren's two children and her all are here for. Local lOis here. from "Stop the Klan! Stop the Klan!"] So He promised to investigate further and nephew to support. And we're facmg thelLWU. lAM is here. Willie Lee Bell. these people are all over. They're all call back with an official statement from time in state prison. And all my phone worker comrades-I over, I mean they follow them all the the company. He did say that the So this is an act of politicized racism. see a lot of them! [Applause.] And way to Oklahoma. This is their second telephone company was not the party It's an attempt to import South Africa many, many others. I thank you all for encounter with the Klan in only five filing charges against Mozee and style justice to Oakland. We've been being here, I really do. And your months that they've been there. I mean, Palmiero." [Lauren interjects: "And we singled out and selectively prosecuted two hours after my brother-in-law was all know that's a lie!"] because we're an interracial couple, in the city they tried to arrest him for Now. anybody who knows the phone because we've been active in the Militant armed robbery. company knows that that woman Action Caucus. because Lauren was a ,ro;~ I am a member of the Militant Action doesn't go to the bathroom without long-time member of the Black Panther Caucus, which is a real, living part of approval from her superiors. So let's not Party. But everybody knows that we are .A{,~y{T/\:%{I.\1... ~-··--r)(.,m our union. As with Jane Margolis, an kid ourselves, they're trying to distance not the only intended victims. They're elected delegate to the National Con themselves from this because they're Mli aiming at blacks and working people. .!! vention of CWA in 1979: she was already feeling some pressure. They're saying that blacks do not have dragged off the convention floor bodily The other encouraging news was that the right to defend themselves against by Jimmy Carter's Secret Service men. yesterday at our court appearance the violent racist assault. They're saying Later. in 1980, they sent her a letter of District Attorney, with a very sad that unionists do not have the right to apology and a $3,500 check which she expression on his face, made a motion to defend themselves against management signed over to the CWA Defense Fund. drop one of the charges that was violence on the picket line. And that's So as yDU see, we can win with this originally filed against us. And that was bullshit. kind of support. We need to win not the "great bodily injury" clause [cheers], Because if we can't defend ourselves only for ourselves, believe me. That's a saying that originally they had had the on the picket line, then we don't have real important point, important in the understanding that MichelJe Rose picket lines. And if we don't have picket long run for all blacks and working Hansen would need surgery on her nose. lines, then the right to strike is really people. An injury to one is an injury to but recently they've come to discover meaningless. And if we don't have the all. It's not Ray and myself who are the that this wasn't necessary ... so. sorry right to strike. then we don't have ".'c criminals here. The criminals are Ma about the lies, but. you know.... unions. And if we don't have unions. SHlJT Bell. the San Leandro Police Depart So. your energetic work is paving off. Reagan would be a very happy man. ment and the District Attorney. They're feeling the pressure. But it's not Because the only union he likes lS IT DOWN I thank all of you. over yet. As I said. we're dealmg with Solidarnosc. They hat\? unions. They .f' dangerous people here and we have to ~ hate us. They hate mobilizatiom of this keep fighting them. These people have kind. Ray Palmiero to lie, the social contradictions in this SHUT And I want to·thank you again for society, where a rich mmority tries to Fired and facing prison for defending coming out here. because it's lahor! T TIGHT! rule over a working-class majonty. his union and his companion Lauren black mobilizations of this kind that will force them to lie. Witness Grenada. I want to thank you all again for stop this atrocity before it happens. And where the government said that a naval Lauren and myself. We appreciate you that will stop any other attempted convoy would not be engaged militarily. all coming out here and hanging with us mobilizations by the KKK. the Nazis. as and then they invade this tiny island in in this weather. I want you to know. and we witnessed in November m Washing WV Photo I'm happy to have been allowed to make the name of restoring democracy. Lies. ton, D.C. where the KKK had to put Ray and Lauren on the CWA picket this announcement, that our efforts Lauren and I are the victims of the line during strike. your efforts-have already paid off to kind of democracy that Reagan would continued on page j() 12 WORKERS VANGUARD libs are for a "negotiated settlement" can smell a contra cockroach. Last drowned out by the crowd responding, Eden both in EI Salvador and Nicaragua, and Friday, Pastora received a small taste of "CIA, CIA!" Pastora is their man. He even enjoys what he deserves from the audience at a Pastora is no democrat, he's Ronald support· from the social-democratic Columbia University forum sponsored Reagan's terrorist. This counterrevolu Pastora ... Second International ofMitterrand and by Albert Shanker's rabidly anti tionary scum deserves to be driven from (continued/rom page 2) Schmidt, who call on the Sandinistas to Communist Social Democrats USA. any platform from which he attempts to restore "genuine" political pluralism Outside the auditorium where Pastora speak. While he talks of "democratic Nicaragua is next on his hit list. We say: (for the bourgeoisie), a mixed economy was to speak on "A Revolution Be debate," his mercenaries are slaughter "Vietnam was a victory! Two, three, and nonalignment. So when the SL/ trayed" (by him), the SL/SYL held a ing defenders of the Nicaraguan revolu many defeats for U.S. imperialism!" SYL approached various groups for small protest picket together with the tion with guns and ammo provided by . The iSt calls for the construction of common action against the CIA's Revolutionary Communist League the CIA. As Pastora rants against Trotskyist parties, based on the pro traitor Pastora, they were either "too Internationalist. Later, inside the audi "Cuban internationalists"-the teachers gram of permanent revolution, to lead' busy" (Casa EI Salvador "Farabundo torium, the largely anti-Pastora crowd and doctors who are serving the Nicara the proletariat to power, from Central Marti") or opposed to "common activi erupted in chants of "Asesino" (murder guan people, and the military advisers America to Mexico and beyond. ties with the Spartacists" (Casa Nicara er) and "No pasarcm" (they shall not aiding the Sandinistas' defense against a The Spartacist League is at the gua). Instead they preferred their pass) when the CIA's "social new Bay of Pigs-the U.S. Marines are forefront in denouncing El Traidor November 12 "peace" crawl together democratic" traitor-terrorist appeared. practicing amphibious landings with Pastora, warning that he is a "democrat with imperialist liberals like Congress Pandemonium ensued. At times Pasto their Honduran puppet army. Nicara ic" front man for Yankee invasion and man Michael Barnes who have support ra's translator seated beside him could gua is in danger! We say: "Smash the Somozaist counterrevolution. But to ed Reagan's Big Stick invasion of not hear his voice above the tumult. contras, workers to power!" As Sparta the reformists, Pastora is "Mr. Political Grenada. Frustrated gusano goons charged into cist demonstrators proclaimed outside Solution," and thus they hesitate, But hundreds and thousands of those the crowd to get at the "Communists." Freedom House, "No more Batistas, equivocate and vacillate. The Demo who have marched in opposition to When the "Young Social Fascists" tried workers smashed the tsar-Defend cratic Party "doves" courted by the rad- Reagan's policies in Central America to chant "Viva Pastora!" they were Cuba and the USSR!". transitional organizations of labor/ black defense, mass organizations ofthe Conference ... party (see box page 4). On the 27 NQvember 1982 (continued from page 4) Comrade Fraser's participation in ception ofthe Negro Struggle," castigat this conference helped underline the Labor/Black Mobilization conference document's insistence that ed the SWP for adapting to black Excerpted from the Main Confer directly lead thousands of people in separatist ideology, a stance which "what is posed for our party is not so much a 'turn' as the renewed applicabili ence Document of the Spartacist action. became the SWP's theoretical cover for ty under these conditions ofthe perspec League/ u.s. Seventh National Con The S1.'s entry onto the scene had abstention from mass civil rights ference, "Struggle Against Reagan pushed the APC openly into the struggles: the party implicitly redefined tives outlined in 'Black and Red: Class Struggle Road to Negro Freedom' Reaction. " diversionary role played elsewhere by itself as a "white" organization whose (March 1967). one of the founding Masses of black people in the the Democrats themselves in "com role toward the black movement was to documents of our tendency." The Washington area have embraced as munity unity" festivals counterposed enthuse from the sidelines over black their own victory the militant mobili to our same time/same place anti nationalist currents. Fraser's analysis "Black and Red" document was adopt ed in draft form at the SL founding zation whose size, discipline and fascist mobilizations. The APC chose showed how black separatist ideology conference in April 1966. The report on labor backing kept the cops on their its spot near the very end of the has emerged at times when blacks saw good behavior, prevailed over the announced Klan march route; we little hope for integrated social that conference published in Spartacist noted the need for "a mass organization Reagan administration's intention chose to assemble at the point struggles. He counterposed a program that the Klan's "right" to march for appropriate to forces interested in of revolutionary integrationism. of black workers around a program of organized self-defense, independent genocide would be shoved down the stopping the KKK march at its Dick Fraser, presently a member of throats of black Washington by any starting point. Thanks to the out the Democratic Socialists of America, political action, and other transitional demands." The article noted that com means necessary, and handed the pouring of support for the Labor/ was one of a sizable layer of SWP rapidly gl'owing fascist "fringe" of Black Mobilization, instead of our spokesmen propelled out of the party as rade Richard Fraser spoke then as a co reporter on the black struggle and reaction an important defeat. The being squeezed between the Marcy it plunged rapidly from centrism to success Of this small mass action ites and the cops, as the Marcyites outright reformist appetite in the 1960s. "traced the evolution of the SWP's theoretical bankruptcy and unprinci under our leadership poses big would reasonably expect in the EI Though the comrade's political contacts opportunities for our growth.... Salvador protest milieu, the Marcy with the SL have been episodic, he is an pled practice and our present Marxist position on this question." The article The November 27 mobilization ites got politically squeezed between acknowledged theoretical mentor ofour defined as a central task "blackening" showed how quickly things can move us and the black masses. In substance tendency, which has published "For the the Spartacist League. in this period. With Reagan covertly simply running a pro-Democratic Materialist Conception of the Negro The SL of 1966, though a very small backing the KKK provocation, diversion, the Marcyites had to Struggle" as part of our Marxist group, had forged, mainly in rent-strike probably gambling that it would cow maintain a posture as "Marxists" and Bulletin series. organizing work and protests against rather than inflame the black masses, vicarious fans of "peoples rebel At this conference, SL National cop brutality, real political and social with the Marcyite All-Peoples Con lions." Thus the APC, while explicit Chairman Jim Robertson acknowl ties among a layer of militant ghetto gress perfunctorily building an ill ly anti-militant (baiting the Labor/ edged his personal political debt to Dick working people. But the rise of left defined protest after a desultory Black Mobilization as "confron Fraser a's "almost my last teacher" in the talking black nationalism, in the ab showing earlier in the month, and tationist" and with predictions SWP (along with the late Murry Weiss). with D.C. police officials proclaim of "violence"), had to hedge on Robertson cited the strong positive sence of a powerful revolutionary integrationist pole, closed off for a ing early on their special animosity the central question of "ignore the subjective component of the relation towards us, November 27 looked at Klan"l"ban the Klan" vs. "stop the ship, telling the conference that we have period the prospects for rapid recruit ment of black cadres to Trotskyism. the outset like a marginal proposition Klan." Hence the scared reformist some profound agreements with com for our effective intervention. Fur leftists convoked a crowd of militant rade Fraser and have always been happy Now the black nationalist rhetoric has run straight into a hardening white thermore the APC had permits for blacks, Palestinians, etc., some of to bend the stick that way despite no less about two dozen sites all over the whom thought they had come for serious differences which neither of us bourgeois hostility, slamming the door on the illusion that blacks will "make it" vicinity. But the mass sentiment for anti-Klan action. Under steady prov ever sought to hide. Comrade Fraser has in America by the "split-level dashiki" militant anti-Klan action among ocation by the cops, the APC bloc recently become a closer party collabor D.C. area black people, enabling us lost political control of their demon ator helping to guide our efforts to root route, while the social and class polari zation impelled by the blows of Reagan to obtain real labor support, enabled stration and actually tried to link the SL among militant black workers us to leap over the APC obstacle and arms against their own crowd. and youth. In particular, he is partici reaction opens up a renewed prospect for the SL to emerge as the vanguard of pating in elaborating our perspective for united class struggle for black liberation. In the months since the conference, SPARTACIST LEAGUE LOCAL DIRECTORY our work continues to confirm the urgent opportunities we believe are National Office Cleveland Norfolk presented. We continue to meet with a Box 1377. GPO Box 91954 P.O. 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Canal Street Station Box 7198, Station A Make checks payable/mail to: mate significance will be judged by how Chicago, IL 60680 New York, NY 10013 Toronto, Ontario M5W 1X8 Spartacist Publishing Co., (312) 427-0003 (212) 267-1025 (416) 593-4138 Box 1377 GPO, New York, NY 10116 well the party confronts our urgent tasks in the present and future.• ) 18 NOVEMBER 1983 13 Near East Flashpoint... Remember "The Bedford Incident" The recent attack on a Soviet submarine in international (continued from page 1) waters by the U.s. destroyer McCloy recalls the 1960s Strait of Hormuz, through which pass movie, The Bec((ord Incident. In the movie an obsessed es much of the capitalist world's oil, Navy commander (played by Richard Wid mark), who in transit from the Persian Gulf to West wanted to sink Cuba during the '62 missile crisis. hounds a Europe. Washington is now using the Soviet submarine ("Big Red") off the Greenland coast until Beirut bombing to whip up war frenzy it is forced to surface. As he moves in for the "kill," crossing against Khomeini's Iran as well as Syria. the line between playing at war and the real thing, an According to the New York Times (29 overwrought crew member launches the missiles. In the October): movie, the commander ot"Big Red" retaliates; in the recent "The Reagan Administration is now real-life attack on the high seas. the Soviet commander assuming that the Iranian Go\ernment withheld fire. Perhaps he was thinking of the 90 men played the key role in the bombing aboard his disabled vessel who were now sitting duck attacks on the American marines and French troops last Sunday and will targets. But remember that these subs are not only nuclear retaliate once conclusive information i, powered. they carry nuclear weapons. If the Soviet collected. Admini<;tration officials said commander. harried by an American destroyer out to play today." "dirty tricks" on the Russians, had loosed his torpedoes it "Dizzy with success" over tiny Grenada, would have left a large hole in the ocean where the U.S. ship the Reagan gang are now set to plunge used to be. Reagan had better stop messing with the into the Near East quagmire on a broad Soviets. front. _~n r ~~~ IE iii n nr 'i T ",.;." ...-..... _ From Grenada to the abusing and lording it over black Shores of Tripoli invasion of Sandinista Nicaragua to Beirut headquarters. Likewise Paris islanders. both Grenadians and Cubans. follow up their Grenada "\vin." The New expressed concern a bout the "risks ofan The tiny island of Grenada, with an The Cuban dead are dragged along the York Times (II November) reported a escalation in the Middle East." army good only for shooting down its ground and dumped in piles. White secret meeting last month of the military In the 1973 October War between own unarmed citizens, was supposed to medical students who kissed the ground chiefs of Panama, EI Sahador. Hondu Israel and the Arab states. :\ixon be a quick. tidy military operation for after being "rescued" by the Marines ras and Guatemala to study "the legality resorted to nuclear brinkmanship to the American war machine. "Operation refer to the native inhabitants as "FIGS" of joint military action against Nicara warn off the Soviets from intervening on Urgent Fury" was a diversion to draw ("fucking ignorant Grenadians"). Bring gua." Asked if the L .S. would "aid" an Egypt's behalf. That was during the attention away from the bloody mess in ing "democracy" at bayonet point to invasion by its puppets in this "Central he:-day of "detente." T"ow the Russians Lebanon, where U.S. military head Grenada is a replay of the colonialists' American Defense Council," as it did are in Syria in a big way, and Reagan is qu~'ers were blown away and some 240 "white man's burden." the phantom "Organizafion of Ea strike by ordering its Greyhound me "We say the VAW membership. Militant Teamsters. airline and rail chanics, baggage handlers and ticket employed and unemployed, must join workers. transit workers: rally your Greyhound those picket lines and make sure' agents (Locals 656 and 985) to cross the Pickel unions behind the Greyhound workers! lines mean don 'I cross.' UA W Local656 lines of the d rivers in Detroit. The AFL and 985: Stop work noll',' Join Ihe A TU Bust the union-busters! Build mass Strike ... CIO bureaucrats zealously support Slrikers'. .. picket lines-don't cross them! Shut (continued from page 16) Reagan's crusade against the Soviet . "For a xenerallransport strike coast 10 down Greyhound tight! For united Union. And once you buy that, you coasl-shU! it down'" strike action!. scale of wages and hours; for full cost can't fight against its domestic of-living protection and jobs for all, reflection-Reagan's war on the unions through a shorter workweek with no and poor. loss in pay. ~ You can't fight Reagan with the anti ~ Soviet. strikebreaking Democrats. For a National \Vhen Greyhound gets ready to try to r Transportation Strike! move its buses. ifs going to be all those • •I Democratic Party city bosses-the it Kochs. Feinsteins, Washingtons. Cole A nationwide transportation strike to man Youngs-whose cops will be out I smash Greyhound's scabherding would I there to knock the heads of pickets. J cripple the U.S. economy and immedi t ately pose a political confrontation with It's going to take class-struggle i! the Reagan government. First of all it's militants who fight for the political necessary to defend the bus drivers' independence of labor to rally the picket lines. But it will take more than unions behind the embattled Grey simple militancy to organize such a hound strikers. The Rouge Militant struggle. Ifs not just a question of Caucus in Detroit. who are organizing 25~ $2,50 opposing particularly sordid acts like against the UAW's scabherding and for Make checks payable/mall to: those of the UAW's "Solidarity House," mass support to the Greyhound picket I which has already undermined this lines. demanded: Spartaclst PUblishing Co" Box 1377 GPO, New York, NY 10116 I ii I( 18 NOVEMBER 1983 15 Ii •I I i WfJliNEliS .,,IN'1J1I1i1J No More PATCUs-For aNational Transp-ort Strike! Smash Greyhound Union-Busting! NOVEMBER 15-The battle lines are Angeles some 300 integrated strikers up. Greyhound Lines. the nation's marched to the Greyhound terminal largest bus company, is out to break the from the bus barn and chanted defiant Amalgamated 'Transit Union (ATU). ly, "Hell no, we won't go!" In San This is a fight for the entire labor Francisco 400 pickets burned copies of movement. The showdown is Thursday. Greyhound's back-to-work letters and Greyhound scabherding must be loudly counted down the seconds to the stopped-no matter what.' For mass company's noon deadline. It was the pickets to blockade the garages! Trans same in other cities. The strikers know San Francisco port workers: all out to stop the scabs! that the existence of their union and Greyhound Defy the bosses' cops and courts! every hard won gain they've made is at strikers man First Reagan broke PATCO. Then stake. picket lines Continental Airlines fired its entire Greyhound is pleading poverty, but chanting: "No workforce. Now they're aiming at the that won't wash. Last year the Grey scabs, no cuts, ATlJ. If they can bust the bus drivers. hound Corporation netted $103 million. let the union drive the bus!" you're next! But labor has the power to Meanwhile profits for the bus lines have ensure that there will be no more zoomed as the bus line junked its PA TeOs I If Greyhound tries to roll the unprofitable routes under new deregula buses. we must make damn sure that tion guidelines. The ATU offered to nothing in this country moves-no freeze the current contract for a year and buses, no planes. no trains. no trucks. no submit to binding arbitration. But WV Photo subways-nOlhingl This is everybody's Greyhound provoked the strike with its and hired back a scab workforce at half bus drivers at Trailways and other \i.nes fight. For a national transport strike! massive takeaway demands for the sole the pay and twice ,he workload! And in to continue working! And they spread Dodge-~cked Even before the picket lines went up purpose of breaking the union. As a the Southwest. Phelps illusions in phony. nonexistent "legal on ~ovember3. Greyhound had "Ii ready union spokesman. Joe Brady. put it. with a massive display of police power guarantees," rather than preparing to ~ationa, put out its ads for scabs. On the first day "They're trying to make this the private and the Guard-brought in build effecti\e mas:; picket lines to stop alone in ~ ew York City. oYer 1.000 lined sector version of the air-traffic control truckloads of scabs in an eHon to hreak the scabs. up under the nose of the union at the lers fiasco of a few years ago" ( Wall the copper miners' union. Well. you can be sure that If the bosses Port Authority terminal: within two Street Journal. 10 ~O\ember). What's behinc. the defeats of the will run airlines with scab pilots and air traffic controllers. they won't think weeks. the company was boasting it had When Reagan busted PATCO. it was unions is not so ;";,uch the courts and 55.000 scab applicants nationwide to a green light for every boss to go after cops. but the f;.;.lure of the union twice about scabs driving Greyhound replace the jobs of 12.500 strikers. Then the unions. The government would love misleaders to unleash the enormous buses full of poor and wOi'king people. Greyhound issued a take-it-or-Ieave-it to sec the trade unions beaten and picket power of labor solidarity. Two years As for the "law," capitalist politicians ultimatum. demanding that union lines smashed and militants like Lauren ago, had key unions like the Teamsters. from Reagan on down are primed to members swallow a 25 percent cut in Mozee and Ray Palmiero jailed. pilots or Machinists supported PATCO unleash the same strikebreaking court injunctions. jail terms and armed police wages. medical and pension benefits, to regiment and terrorize America's by honoring their strike, the airports thugs that PATCO strikers and the and holiday time. working people as part of the anti would have been shut down solid and On Monday, November 14 deter Soviet war drive. With the air traffic Reagan brought to his knees. No more Arizona miners got. The capitalist state is not neutral but an organ of the class mined union members-bus drivers, controllers out of the way, the airlines PATeas! The bosses' union-busting mechanics, baggage handlers, ticket went on the warpath. Last August attacks can and must be stopped now! rule ofthe bosses. Defending their union and jobs means shutting down Grey agents-massed in nationwide rallies. Continental provoked a strike of the Teamsters. railroad workers. airline hound solid! Particularly in a period They were there to make it clear that Machinists: pilots and flight attendants workers, private and city transit work they weren't going to take.the com crossed the lAM's lines. Then it was ers should meet Greyhound's scabherd like this, where union-busting is rife. pany's total surrender terms. In Los their turn: Continental fired everybody, ing with nationwide strike action! that means a massive mobilization of Although a relatively small unit in labor. bringing out on strike the raw ~ itself. the Greyhound workers have power of transportation workers. who < -u established links with the powerful can bring the economy to a grinding ::r o transportation unions. Teamsters in halt. o most cities have refused to make Such powerful labor action lays the deliveries to Greyhound: Chicago's basis for undermining the bosses' scab transit workers are manning Greyhound herding and union-busting. To break picket lines. Bus drivers in San Mateo, the airline strikes. they brought in not California refused company overtime to only the military. but ex-CIA flyboys. take over Greyhound routes. And every mercenaries and other social trash to do one of these key unions has reason to their dirty work. A lot of these guys are strike a blow at the union-busters scabbing for kicks. Greyhound is openly from the powerful Teamsters. who've appealing to the poor and hungry been saddled with over 100.000 layoffs particularly blacks and other minorities and concessions: to New York transit in massive ghettoized areas of high During 1981 workers. who have seen their jobs and unemployment like Detroit. PATCO strike, union conditions go to hell; to Chicago What's necessary is not only militant militant NYC transit workers. who face government ly defended picket lines. but a class transit workers union-busting legislation supported by struggle program that can unite the called for labor capitalist politicians ranging from the unions with the unemployed and blacks. action to shut Republican governor to Chicago black with all victims of this decaying capital down the Democratic mayor Harold Washing ist order! A solid strike now from all airports. ton. And it wouldn't hurt to park some transportation workers opens the way of those semis and city buses in front of for a class-struggle offensive by labor the Greyhound terminals to make sure against the givebacks. the cuts in social that no scab buses roll! benefits and massive unemployment. But the ATU leaders oppose linking Urgently needed is a fight for a sliding their strike with other unions and call on coniinued on page 15 16 18 NOVEMBER 1983