California Poultry Strikers Deinand Raise
• AUSTRALIA $2.00 • BELGIUM BF60 • CANADA $2.00 • FRANCE FF1 0 • ICELAND Kr150 • NEW ZEALAND $2.50 • SWEDEN Kr12 • UK £1.00 • U.S. $1.50 INSIDE L.A. meeting p.rotests visa denial to····Cuban· general THE -PAGE 11 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE VOL. 61 NO. 38 NOVEMEBER 3, 1997 Cubans celebrate California poultry Che,fellow strikers deinand raise combatants 2,300 workers reject company's 'best offer' BY MARTIN KOPPEL BY OSBORNE HART SANTA CLARA, Cuba- "We come not LIVINGSTON, California- Workers at to bid farewell to Che and his heroic com the Foster Farms chicken slaughtering plant rades, but to welcome them," Cuban presi struck the country's largest poultry opera dent Fidel Castro told an overflow crowd in tion here October 6 after rejecting the the Ernesto Che Guevara Plaza here Octo company's offer. ber 17. "I see Che and his men as reinforce Members of United Food and Commer ments, as a detachment of invincible fight cial Workers Locall288- 2,300 strong ers, who this time include not only Cubans set up a 24-hour picket line at the sprawling but Latin Americans coming to fight along plant, 113 miles from San Francisco in side us and write new pages of history and Merced County, in the agriculture produc glory." ing Central Valley. He added, "Che was a genuine commu The workforce of chicken pluckers, cut nist- and today he remains an example, a ters, and packers is about 50 percent Mexi model of a revolutionary and a communist." can, 25 percent are Punjabi, and a smaller Guevara is inseparable from the Cuban percentage of workers are Blacks or Asian, revolution, Castro emphasized, and his po including Hmong and Vietnamese.
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