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A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE VOL. 54/NO. 25 JUNE 29, 1990 $1.25 Mandela gets giant welcome; calls for continued sanctions 3 cities in 750,000 at Canada greet New York ANC·leader parade BY GARY KETTNER BY GREG McCARTAN TORONTO -More than 40,000 cheer­ NEW YORK- Nelson Mandela was · ing people jammed Queen's Park June 18 to given a tumultuous hero's welcome here on welcome African National Congress leader the first day of his eight-city U.S. tour. Nelson Mandela at his first mass rally during "We have visited several countries, both in an 11-apartheid. sanctions should be maintained. We are saying "We are on the threshold of major changes in South Africa," Mandela told the rally. "We are confident that victory is in sight. But, as Seeedaonalonpage14 in a steeplechase race, the last hurdles are the most difficult to overcome. As we enter that so because sanctions were introduced for the last lap, we call on the people of Canada to purpose of dismantling apartheid and of mak­ double and redouble their efforts and endeav­ ing sure that every South African, Black and ors in support of our struggle. white, is able to determine his own future." "We call on you to pursue with the utmost Arriving from a three-day tour of Canada, vigor the demands that all political prisoners the deputy president of the African National and detainees be released, political trials Congress is accompanied by a delegation of ended, exiles returned, repressive legislation leaders of the ANC and the South African repealed, and·the state of emergency ended Congress of Trade Unions (COSATU). They in its entirety," the ANC leader said. were welcomed at the airport by New York Nelson Mandela, arriving in New \brk from Canada June 20, speaks at welcoming "We must emphasize that we do not at all airport Mayor David Dinkins, the governors of New ceremony. Hundreds of thousands welcomed the ANC leader during the nrst stop of his question the integrity of [South African] Pres­ York and New Jersey, ranking foreign diplo­ ident de Klerk and his colleagues. We accept US. tour. Winnie Mandela is at his right. mats, trade union and religious leaders, anti­ that they will abide by what was agreed," he apartheid activists, and members of the ANC. continued. "Yet, until we have achieved our "In this context we call on the international imposed as a peaceful means to end apart­ Some three-quarters of a million people objectives, neither we nor the international community to maintain sanctions;" Mandela heid. Apartheid has not ended. We are not yet lined the streets for a motorcade of the dele­ community should lower our guard. stated. "Sanctions were asked for by us and Continued on Page 10 gation through Brooklyn and a ticker-tape parade in Mandela's honor in Manhattan. A rally outside the mayor's office drew tens of thousands who cheered the ANC leader. Many governments and corporations July 9 trial: big battle in Curtis fight around the world have been forced to break economic, political, cultural, sporting, and An important battle in Mark Curtis' fight preme Court. His appeal argues forcefully during strike battles, including unpaid bills, other ties with the apartheid regime. Calls for for justice is shaping up. The jailed Iowa and convincingly that he was the victim of harassment by debt collectors, tightfisted continuation of these sanctions by speakers unionist and political activist faces a July 9 an unfair trial and that his rights under the landlords, and the need to feed and clothe during the day's events were greeted by ap­ jury trial in a civil lawsuit brought by Keith U.S. Constitution and Iowa state law were children. 1bese pressures can have a Clilsh­ plause. and Denise Morris. They are seeking puni­ violated. ing impact on strikers' families. The employ- "Keep the pressure on apartheid" buttons, tive damages for the "pain and suffering" A decision by Judge Gamble to uphold the Continued on Page 14 Continued on Page 10 1988 conviction would again deny Curtis his day in court. Such a ruling would limit the EDITORIAL jury to determining the financial award he would have to pay the Morrises. Spedal Offer they claim Curtis inflicted on their daughter. In the July trial the jury could order a A pretrial motion filed by the Morrises' massive monetary judgment for the Mor­ A nevv publication from Pathfinder in time fcr attorney is now being considered by Iowa rises. This could open a life-long court ha­ African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela's District Court Judge Arthur Gamble. It asks rassment campaign, including garnishment North America tour! Nelson Mandela Speeches the court to rule that Curtis' guilt has already of Curtis' wages to collect the debt. This 1990: 'Intensify the Struggle to Abolish Apart- been established by his 1988 criminal con­ would create an onerous burden on Curtis heid.' ' viction. and his wife Kate Kaku. This 74-page pamphlet features seven of But that conviction is far from settled. Striking workers have first-hand experi­ Mandela's speeches delivered since his release from Curtis has taken his case to the Iowa Su- ence with economic burdens accumulated prison in February 1990, including his address in Luanda, Angola, and at Wembley Stadium in Lon­ don. The pamphlet also includes Mandela's July 1989 letter from prison to P.W. Botha and the Free­ dom Charter. Machinists on picket line: The new pamphlet, together with New Interna­ tional No.5, which features articles on the struggle in southern Africa, and an introductory subscription ''We've been Shugrued!'' to the Militant, which r·se~d-the" spe~~i ·c;;;e~ "today-:-:-: .. carries on-the-scene re­ BYJUDYSTRANAHAN signs on the picket line that say, "We've been ports from South Africa : o 12 weeks of the Militant and Nelson Mandela In the weeks following Martin Shugrue's Shugrued." and re.-vs about other : Speeches 1990 for $10 appointment as trustee of Eastern Airlines, battles by 'NOI'king peo­ Since his appointment on Apri118 Shugrue : o 12 weeks of the Militant, Nelson Manc:lela Speeches ple around the world, many strikers had hoped that the dismissal has projected a course that he hopes will : 1990, and Hew International No.5 for $15 of Frank Lorenzo- former head of the car­ strengthen Eastern and-put the airline back : _1 _5 _1 0 _20 copies of Nelson Manc:lela makes a PQ'/'Ierful pack­ rier - would result in meaningful negotia­ on its feet. : Spccches 1990,_$4 each age that every trade tions between the International Association Efforts have included: unionist, anti-apartheid :Name of Machinists (lAM) and Eastern. But as it • A $310 million asset sale to American : Address------______activist, and student will has become clear that this is not what is Airlines of Eastern's Latin American routes want to buy and read. happening, Machinists are picking up the to be completed in August. L--··-·····•••••••••······-···············-·······-···~ slogan "No contract, no peace" and resolving • The announcement that Eastern will ex­ Available from Pathfinder bookstores listed on page 12, or by mail from Pathfinder, 410 to keep fighting. A supporter of the walkout pand service from Atlanta to Houston on July West St., New York, N.Y. 10014. Send $1 per book or pamphlet postage and handling. from Pittsburgh reports strikers are carrying Continued on Page 6 -Saab-Scania auto workers subscribe in Sweden

BY RONI McCANN supporters made to reach union which continues today, sparlced an ample, seven workers subscribed to During the drive seven shoppers STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Mil­ worlcers in sttuggle at the Saab­ interest in the Militant as supporters the socialist press, said Isacsson. signed up to get the Militant and itant supporters here completed the Scania ttuck factory in SOdertiilje, organized to introduce the paper to Although the sales drive ended Perspectiva Mundial from these recent international circulation drive just south of the city. "During the their co-fighters on the job, at the with a bang it got off to a slow start. teams. And nine new readers were that ended May 19, winning llO sales drive, 20 Saab-Scania workers bigger-than-usual union meetings, A few weeks into the sales drive, won at the Pathfinder bookstore and and in residential areas where Saab­ Isacsson explained, supporters in at public forums held there during Scania worlcers live. Sales of the Sweden began organizing regular the sales campaign. paper at the factory gate also picked discussions on the importance of May 1 was one of the most suc­ GETTING up. "One worlcer decided to sub­ convincing worlcers and youth of cessful sales days during the cam­ scribe at a plant-gate sale," Isacsson regularly getting the Militant, the paign, explained Isacsson. Militant THE mentioned. Spanish-language Perspectiva supporters sold the paper at May MILITANT One of the first efforts supporters Mundial, and French-language Day demonstrations in SOdertiilje made to reach a wider layer of worlc­ Lutte ouvriere-instead of buying and Stockholm, then held a public ers at the Saab-Scania plant was a just one. With this focused effort, forum that night at the Pathfinder AROUND door-to-door sale to bachelor hotels combined with a broad approach to bookstore. Twenty-one new readers in SOOertiilje. ''These are housing meet potential new readers, sub­ were won from the day's efforts, new readers- 112 percent of their signed up to get subscriptions to the units near the plant where several scription sales picked _up. including two West Africans who goal, which they had raised during Militant and Perspectiva Mundial," hundred workers live - mostly During the April target week sup­ saw copies of Lutte ouvriere on the the effort. This includes 58 new sub­ said Isacsson. footloose, young men and women." porters redoubled their efforts to win literature table. scribers to the Militant. ' He and two other Militant sup­ On the first visit five residents new readers. They started setting up New subscribers were also won In an interview here with Carl­ porters work at the Saab-Scania bOught subscriptions to the Militant literature tables regularly at Stock­ among activists in solidarity with Erik Isacsson, who helped to orga­ plant, which employs 5,000, and • or Perspectiva Mundial. holm University and visited student Cuba. "Nine members of the Swe­ nize sales during the subscription others have sold the paper at the · Aside from the success in win­ donns. Four students signed up to dish-Cuba Friendship Society effort,hedescribedsomeofthechal­ factory gate for several months. ning new readers worlcing at Saab­ get subscriptions. signed up to get subscriptions during lenges and highlights of the drive. A In February worlcers there mount­ Scania, other supporters stepped up On many Saturdays sales teams the sales campaign, as well as four central aspect of the successful cam­ ed a fight for higher pay, given a rise sales on the job as well. At Konsum traveled to marlcet places in work­ participants in the Nordic Brigade paign, he said, was special efforts in inflation in Sweden. This battle, Charlc meat-packing plant, for ex- ing-class suburbs of Stockholm. to Cuba," Isacsson reported. 1,200 pamphlets, papers sold as Mandela arrives

BY RONI McCANN Speeches 1990. "Our literature tables were swamped! Militant supporters around the country are There were so many opportunities we on a campaign to expand the readership of couldn't take advantage of them all," said the paper during the eight-city U.S. tour of Maggie Trowe from Toronto. Mandela. They are offering introductory sub­ "There was a constant stream of people scriptions to the paper, along with a copy of surrounding the sales tables. We couldn't NelsonMandelaSpeeches1990,for$10.And even talk to everybody!" said Gary Watson for an additional $5 new readers can get New from Montreal. International No. 5, which features "The "It was fantastic! We were deluged. People Coming Revolution in South Africa" by Jack were lined up waiting to get a glimpse of the Barnes. 1\venty-three copies of the magazine books," said Janet Post from New Yorlc. have been sold so far. Militant supporters from Toronto, Friends of the Pathfinder Mural were sell­ Montreal, and New Yorlc were reporting re­ ing posters and postcards of the portrait of sults of sales of the paper, the Spanish-lan­ the ANC leader painted on the six-storymural guage monthly Perspectiva Mundial, and in New Yorlc by South African artistDumile French-language quarterly Lutte ouvriere Feni. Participants in the tour activities bought during the first stops on the North American 31 posters and 150 postcards in New Yorlc tour of African National Congress leader and Toronto. Nelson Mandela The ANC leader visited During Mandela's tour the Young Socialist Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal on June 16-19 Alliance will be inviting youth to participate and arrived in New York June 20. in a class series on the sttuggle to abolish In. all, 264 people bought copies of the apartheid. It will also be sponsoring open socialist press at the events in Canada and 64 houses after some of the major events. In subscribed, including 42 who signed up for New Yorlc, some 130 people stopped by an the Militant. Participants also bought 272 open house held after the June 20 ticker-tape copies of the new Pathfmder pamphlet Nel­ parade for Mandela. Another open house will son Mandela Speeches 1990: "Intensify the be held in Boston, June 23, from 5 to 8 p.m. Struggle to Abolish Apartheid" and $2,800 after the Mandela rally at Community in other Pathfinder titles. Church, 525 Boylston betWeen Dartmouth In New York after the first day of a three­ and Clarenden. day visiuo the city, 223 people bought copies And in Atlanta, the YSAwill hold an open of the Militant and 19 subscribed. Close to house all day June 27 at the Comfort Inn, 120 At events during first four days of Mandela's North American tour, participants $2,000 in Pathfinder literature was sold, in North Avenue N.W. across from Georgia bought 819 copies of Nelson Mandela Speeches 1990, 433 copies of the Militant, 86 addition to 547 copies of Nelson Mandela Tech. subscriptions to the socialist press, and $4,800 in Pathrmder literature. The Militant Gei the trulh • • • get the Closing news date: June 20, 1990 Editor: DOUG JENNESS Circulation Director: RONI McCANN Nicaragua Bureau Director: CINDY JAQUITH Business Manager: JIM WHITE MILITANT Editorial Staff: Susan Apstein (Nicaragua), Seth Galinsky (Nicaragua), James Harris, Yvonne Hayes, Arthur Hughes, Weekly news and analysis on the Roni McCann, Greg McCartan, Selva Nebbia, Judy Sttanahan, struggles of working people worldwide Peter Thierjung. 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2 TbeMititant June 29, 1990 British Coal calls for stockpiling in case miners strike over jobs

BY PETE CLIFFORD "men have relied on the bonus to make up because of public opposition to the new poll SHEFHELD, England-Energy Minis­ their low wage," he said, "but many have left tax, and that any attacks against the NUM ter John Wakeham has issued a directive to the industty for better pay and conditions. would become an issue for all the unions. recently privatized electricity generating Those who have stayed," the miner reported, companies -National Power and Power­ "have had to work more and more overtime, ROTHERHAM- Five thousand miners Gen-to hold 27 million tons of coal stock, many seven days a week, to make up for the and supporters took to the streets of this York­ worth £16 million, at the start of winter for shortage of labor." shire city near Sheffield June 16 on the occa­ the next few years. The action is to guard Capstickexplainedthatskilledminershave sion of the annual Yorlcshire miners' gala. against a possible strike by the National decided "instead of allowing British Coal to Delegations of miners from throughout Union of Mineworlcers. This stockpiling is use them to paper over the cracks, they will Yorlcshire and the surrounding area marched just under the 30 million tons the power no longer work excessive overtime." behind their union branch banners. Contin­ companies reportedly held when the 1984- Since then skilled miners at Whitemoor, gents from the Women Against Pit Closures; 85 miners' strike began. another Selby mine, have joined the protest. striking engineering worlcers from Renolds The government directive followed a May At a June 10 meeting of 100 skilled miners Chains in Cardiff, Wales; and striking glass 22 announcement by British Coal that it plans from throughout the Selby complex, electri­ workers from Waterford Crystals in Ireland to cut 7,500 miners' jobs in the next three cians and fitters from the Riccal mine also got also marched. years. Officials of the govenunent-owned involved. British Coal has called this an in­ The demonstration was led by Arthur company said this is dictated by less demand dustrial action and have stopped making Scargill, Peter Heathfield, and Jack Taylor, for coal from the electric power companies. bonus payments of up to £40 per week. On U\\l\. leaders of the NUM. Miners from South By 1993 only 65 million tons of coal will be June 17 miners decided to suspend industrial Africa and Namibia also were at the head of delivered, compared to 70 million tons this action,pendingfurthertalkswithBritishCoal. the march. t&01_ year. Jim Spaul, aNUM member at the Kelling­ Speakers at a post-march rally noted the G.M. Cookson Meanwhile, speculation continues about ley mine in North Yorkshire, explained how new round of threatened mine closures by Striking members of the National Union an even bigger cut in .coal deliveries. The British Coal is ttying to counter the miners' the govenunent. Speakers included Rodney of Mineworkers rally in London during Yorkshire Post reported June 8 that evidence resistance. Bickerstaffe, National Union of Public Em­ 1984-85 national coal strike. Britain's before a parliamentary energy committee es­ "Bonuses have been low, but now they ployees; Tony Blair, Labour Party employ­ coal bosses fear future strikes like this timates that by the year 2003 power compa­ may substantially rise with a new scheme," ment spokesperson; Crosby Moni, National one. Their threatened mine closings and nies might be taking just 38 million tons. Spaul explained. "If the mine produces Union of Mineworlcers in South Africa; and job cuts were big topic of discussion and According to the Post, this would lead to a 50,000 tons four weeks running then the Sandi Sijake of the National Union ofNamib­ protest at the \brkshire miners' annual loss of 32,000 miners' jobs. miners will get an extra £10 a week. Then ian Workers. gala June 16. The government argues that job losses may for every 1,000 tons ~xtra produced, a further be necessary because of steps to cut emissions £1 per week bonus is given. But to get that, of sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide - which 100 percent attendance and no disputes are cause acid rain -from coal-fired power sta­ required. These are the first steps to tty to get Cuba museum in Miami tions. The 12-countty European Community a no-strike deal," he said. has directed that a cut of 60 pen:ent in such Billy Doughty, NUM branch secretary at emissions be made by the year 2003. Kellingley, said this bonus scheme is set up Previous plans for installing flue gas de­ to pressure the union to drop its objections bombed; protests urged sulfurization equipment in most coal-fired to cutting coal on weekends. "If we cut coal power stations and building three new power here seven days a week, we'll jeopardize the BY DAN FEIN of Cubans on the island and in exile. There stations with such equipment have been future of other pits," Doughty said. MIAMI-The Cuban Museum of Arts are more than 500,000 Cubans living in the shelved. Instead, energy needs are to be Spaul reported that among those worlcing and Culture here was bombed for the second Miami area. Ram6n Cemuda, a well-known drawn from natural gas, low-sulfur coal, and at the Kellingley mine "there are many·who time on June 14. The first bombing was in spokesperson for the museum, publicly sup­ nuclear power. Coal currently accounts for are fed up with the jackboot tactics of British 1987 by terrorists opposed to the museum ported Arcos' call. 80 pen:ent of the energy supply. Coal. Some say they don't care if they shut auctioning the works of artists living in Cuba. Radio Mambi, a Spanish-language radio At the time of the 1984-85 strike, 170,000 the lot. But where are we going to work if The latest bombing occurred in the context station in Miami run by right-wing Cuban miners worked at 173 mines. Since then, 101 that happens and what will happen to the of political polarization in the Cuban exile exiles, responded by threatening Cemuda mines have been shut down. Today, there are energy that's needed from coal production?" community. A few days before the attack, over the airwaves. only 64,000 miners, yet production has fallen Spaul explained that the government of Gustavo Arcos - a leader of a "human And Armando Valladares- a cop under only 17 percent Margaret Thatcher is. in a weaker position rights" group in Cuba- called for a meeting the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, which According to the June 3 Sunday Indepen­ was overthrown in 1959, and currently U.S. dent, the rise in labor productivity is the result ambassador to the United Nations Human of closing the least-productive pits. But there Rights Commission -called Arcos a "trai­ "comes a point," the paper argued, "where Suit hits cop surveillance tor." Valladares said a dialogue ..would legit­ productivity increases can no longer be imize the present Cuban government. achieved by job cuts and must be achieved BY JON HILLSON against Cuba, the April 7 action attracted Osvaldo Monz6n, executive director of the by individual effort." This is leading to grow­ Cuban Museum, said, "Valladares' statement NEW YORK- A New Yorlc City police 1,500 marchers. ing pressures on workers in the mines. creates a climate for terrorism." commander who ordered political surveil­ Some 1,000 right-wing Cuban emigres Ken Capstick, National Union of Mine­ The museum board of directors met after worlcers (NUM) delegate from the Stilling­ lance of the April 7 "U.S. Hands Off Cuba" counterdemonstrated nearby. Opponents of demonstration by photographing participants the Cuban revolution had publicly vowed to the bombing and issued a statement denounc­ fleet mine, part of the Selby complex in North ing the damage to several works of art and Yorlcshire, explained that, ''throughout the is being investigated for possible violation of physically stop the April7 protest from taking a court ban on such activity. place. "the moral damage" that the explosion coalfields, British Coal is ttying to attack caused. The worlcs were part of an exhibit The probe of the Manhattan South borough Leaders of the U.S. Hands Off Cuba .Co­ wages and conditions through bonus celebrating the 1Oth anniversary of the boat­ commander, Assistant Chief Thomas Walsh, alition informed police officials prior to their schemes, using them to intimidate miners." lift of Cuban exiles from the port of Mariel. At Stillingfleet, Capstick explained, there by the New York police department legal action that photographing demonstrators bureau, was made public here June 14. would be a violation of the Handschu agree­ The museum officials stated the museum is a massive shortage of skilled electricians "will remain open." and fitters, with no new apprentices taken on Called by a coalition of more than 60 ment, a 1985 court-sanctioned settlement that The bombing caused $40,000 worth of since the 1984-85 strike. At the same time organizations to protest Washington's threats limits police surveillance and infiltration of political groups. damage. There are now 18 bombings or bomb The cops stated they would film police attempts in Miami that the FBI says are movement at the protest and counterdemon­ linked. No one has ever been arrested for any Yorkshire forum on miners' fightback stration for "training material." of these crimes. On Apri17, according to police, six to eight Monz6n said, "We want to see the author­ BY PETE CLIFFORD workers member from Nottinghamshire, ex­ plainclothes cops wearing badges photo­ ities take a more energetic role in discovering ROTIIERHAM, England- Under the plained that the government and employers graphed and vi~ped demonstrators. who the perpetrators of this attack and the 17 theme -"Miners fight back around the in Britain face more problems today than at Several days later, attorney Franklin others are." He added, ''The city, state, and · world" -75 miners, trade unionists, and the start of the 1984-85 minets' strike. Siegel, who had participated in a session federal governments should take action with others attended a forum here following the ''That's why they have to tty to justify pit between coalition leaders and police officials, the same force as they did in the federal June 16 Yorkshire miners' gala. closures by claiming that they're doing so in sent a letter to New Yorlc City Police Com­ judges' mail bombing cases." Featured was Joan Levitt, who talked about the interests of the environment. But the missioner Lee Brown, protesting the "satu­ "Miami's mayor and city commissioners the victory of the United Mine Workers of environmental argument is a smoke screen," ration photo surveillance" of the April 7 have not protested the terrorism," Monz6n America (UMWA) against the Pittston Coal he said. action. said. Referring to the city government's threat Group in the United States, and explained the "Since 1985 they've closed 49 pits in His complaint was joined by the New York to not renew the lease on the city-owned importance for worlcing people of the strikes Britain which produce low-sulfur coal. And Civil Liberties Union. The lawyer noted the building occupied by the museum, he asked, at Eastern Airlines and Greyhound. the fact is that high sulfur content can be "intimidating" function of police filming of "Will the city protect the victim of terrorism Levitt, a member of the UMWA from filtered out. These technologies have been political activity. by evicting us?" Birmingham, Alabama, brought greetings to available for years," Galloway pointed out. "We routinely photograph and videotape For three days following the bombing, the miners' gala from Carol Davis, executive A highlight of the forum was the appear­ large-scale demonstrations, political and oth­ local artists painted a mural on the boarded­ director of the Coal Employment Project, an ance of Crosby Moni, a union activist at the erwise, where there is a possibility of disor­ up front doors and wall of the museum. organization that helps women get and keep Matla mine in South Africa, 80 miles from ders, civil disobedience, or violations of the Argentine, Cuban, Chilean, and U.S. artists jobs in the mines. Johannesburg. He described the conditions law," Walsh stated in defense of his orders. painted, among other things, slogans in de­ Yorkshire miner Jim Spaul chaired the faced by miners in his countty. On June 14 the New Yorlc Civil Liberties fense of freedom of speech and artistic ex­ program and said "to fight we'll need to look Dean Robinson, a worker at Renolds Union also called for the overhaul of the pression. Many supporters of free speech for solidarity around the world" Spaul visited Chains in Cardiff, Wales, spoke about the police department Civilian Complaint Re­ have visited the museum to show solidarity. the coal miners' Camp Solidarity in Vuginia fight recently waged by workers at his job. view Board, formed in 1966. Since then, of The museum is asking letters to be sent to during the Pittston strike. "The biggest eye Rich Palser, a participant in a Militant report­ 8,000 cases that have gone before the board, the mayor's office protesting the bombing opener forme during the visit was that I found ing team to South Africa in March and April, according to Martin Gottlieb, "in not a single and demanding the speedy arrest of the ter­ miners here and miners in the U.S. were like also spoke. one did a police officer give information rorists. Copies should be sent to: Cuban Mu­ two railway lines running together," he said. The meeting was sponsored by the Militant against another." Gottlieb coordinated re­ seum of Arts and Culture, 1300 S.W. 12th Paul Galloway, a National Union of Mine- Forum. search on the board for the NYCLU. Ave., Miami, Fla. 33129. ·

~!l~e 29, 1990 The MUitant 3 Messages express worldwide solidarity for Curtis

Mark Curtis is a unionist and to the ongoing struggle to free Matt: Victim of a racist frame-up people are tired of injustice. If Mississippi police who now face political activist from Des Moines, Curtis, unjustly imprisoned for hav­ incarcerated in the enough of us stand together in what nearly a dozen trumpec!-up charges Iowa, who is serving a 25-year jail ing dared to participate in the strug­ Springville, Alabama, state prison we believe is right and ju8t, we can term in the John Bennett state gle with those who want to live overoome in our struggle and be When I first heard about Mark prison in F~ Madison, Iowa, on decently as men and women worthy As farmers we are well aware of recognized- and people like Matt: Curtis, I was deeply touched. I feel a frame-up conviction of rape and of this name at the end of the 20th the injustices of the courts. The only Curtis will be free. that what I found out proved that he burglary. century. justice in the courts is for the rich. Jackie Counts was wrongly accused There is no The Mark Curtis Defense Com­ Mass struggle across borders is The upcoming trial is another at­ Recording Secretary, United doubt in my mind that he is innocent mittee is leading an international our strength. Take heart, together we tempt to punish someone who fights Mine Workers of America Ladies in all respects. campaign to f"aght for justice for will win. for the rights of others. We continue Auxiliary, Castlewood, Vuginia He is a fighter for everyone. Not to stand with. Mark until victory is only is he fighting for himself in won. On behalf of the Finnish Food prison, but he is also fighting for Carroll Nearmyer Workers Union, which represents other people's welfare as weU. I feel DEFEND MARK CURTIS! Vice-president, American 40,000 bakery, dairy, meat-packing, that Mark Curtis is a man that is Agriculture Movement, butchery, brewery, tobacco, and tiDed with love for everyone. I mean Curtis. For more information General Confederation of Workers Iowa other food-industry workers, we what I say. about the case or how you can (CGT) greet Mark Curtis and his friends. Where I come from, it's a small help, write to the Mark Curtis France Mark Curtis is a trade unionist. Our hearts beat for your struggle! place. It's a small county and we Defense Committee, Box 1048, . This is a fundamental point- a fel­ Your struggle to expose a criminal International solidarity is the only have only one industry here, which Des Pt{oines, Iowa 50311; tele­ low worker is under attack. It is our way of securing life, peace, human is coal. We recently were in a 10- phone(515)~1695. frame-up of a young working-class duty and our obligation to close leader is a necessary ingredient in rights, and dignity in the world! month strike against Pittston Coal If you have news or reports on ranks and defend trade unionists in ·· Group. I deeply believe that if it the fight to protect and advance the struggle. Jar/ Sund activities in support of Mark Cur­ President weren't for.people everywhere who economic and political rights of PE. Heathfield tis from your city or country, Arto Talasmiiki stood with us we would still be on American workers. General Secretary, please send them to the Mililllnl. Secretary-General the picket lines today. Keep up the battle! National Union of Mineworkers, Finnish Food Workers Union . I know you probably wonder why Frank Rosen Britain Below we reprint excerpts from President, District Council 11 Helsinki, Finland a high school kid like myself is so some of the messages sent to the United Electrical, Radio and Mark Curtis has assumed the pro­ concerned. I am concerned for the Mark Curtis defense rally held in Machine Workers of America (UE) portions of a movement. Anti-impe­ We use the words justice and free­ wrongdoing being put on innocent Chicago on June 9. More than 900 rialists throughout the world are domtpgether,becauseinMatt:'scase people everywhere. People trying to people attended the event at the Bis­ Individually we are weak, but col­ convinced of his innocence and one cannot exist without the other. live a decent life should get treated . marck Hotel. Dozens of solidarity lectively we are strong. Collectively sympathize with his cause. There will be no justice until· Matt: decent. messages came from across the in the struggle for the freedom of Rafiq Khan is free. There is no freedom without I wish I could be there with you United States and from around the Brother Curtis we are strong, and we Fonner political prisoner under justice. That is why we should use in person, so I hope that next time I world, reflecting the commitment to every legal means available to us to will win, because the cause is a just the Zia regime in Pakistan hear from you that your struggle is Curtis' fight for justice shown by one. Today it's Mark, tomorrow it fight for Matt:'s freedom. won. I'll fight with all I've got. defenders of democratic rights, could be you or a loved one. In the There is no justice in America for We must fight because we know Yours in solidarity, working-dass militants, and others. struggle there's strength- in ease, working people. The corporations our fight is for a just cause. Carmen Mullins there is weakness. Let's be strong and politicians are concerned for the Benjamin and Gloria Hoover President, United Mine Workers The General Confederation of for Brother Curtis. money that the workers can earn for and family of America Student Auxiliary, Workers brings its absolute support Johnnie lmani Harris their greed. But we hard-working Victims of brutality by Dickenson County, Vuginia Hearing held on motion in lawsuit against Curtis

BY JON BIXBY tion. This is to prevent the jury in the coming Curtis' attorney, George Eichhorn, pre­ with financial pressure that comes down, DES MOINES, Iowa- At a June 18 trial from making a judgment on Curtis' sented legal papers outlining how the politi­ from car payments, rent, and other bills hearing, Iowa District Court Judge Arthur innocence. cal and union activist was denied a fair trial. that press down. Gamble announced that he would study a At the hearing, Pepper concluded his ar­ He introdueed further evidence that supports "I want to thank you for coming today," motion for summary· judgment made in a gument for the motion by urging Judge Gam­ Curtis' charge that he was framed up. Studer added. "We will need broad political lawsuit against Mark Curtis and would an­ ble to leave only one issue for the July jury A central problem in the state's case and financial support if we are going to meet nounce his ruling at a later date. The judge trial- how large the financial award to the against Curtis was the time the woman this challenge and insure that it does not is also reviewing legal papers submitted by Morrises should be. claimed he assaulted her on March 4, 1988. prevent us from continuing to expand Matt: 's Curtis' attorneys on the matter. (::urtis, a unionist and political activist, is While she said she did not look at a watch defense all around the world." The lawsuit against Curtis was brought by currently serving a 25-year jail term at the and could not place the time that way, she Studer called on Curtis' supporters to con­ Keith and Denise Morris. It seeks a fmancial John Bennett Correctional Center in Fort insisted she was attacked five minutes after tribute urgently needed funds to the Mark judgment against Curtis for damages they Madison, Iowa. her favorite television program, "Video Curtis Defense Committee to help meet the claim he inflicted on their daughter. The suit His 1988 conviction is now on appeal to Soul," came on the air. legal costs of the July 9 trial. is slated to go to trial July 9. the Iowa Supreme Court because of the prej­ Eichhorn produced a copy of the Black Entertainment Television Network log The motion for summary judgment in the udicial and unconstitutional rulings that from the night of March 4. It confirms that lawsuit was made by the Morrises' attorney, barred him from presenting relevant evi­ 1,000 rally in New York the show aired at 8:00p.m. At the criminal Stuart Pepper, on May 8. Its aim is to con­ dence, including information about the ar­ trial, Brian Willey, a coworker of Curtis', demanding freedom for vince the judge to rule that Curtis' guilt has resting officer's history of lying on arrest provided undisputed testimony that Curtis already been established for the July trial by reports. The cop was the central witness for Joseph Doherty was with him and dozens of others in Los his 1988 frame-up rape and burglary convic- the prosecution against Curtis. Compadres restaurant from 7:00p.m. until BY MARC LICHTMAN 8:30p.m. NEW YORK-Just two days before Irish Eichhorn concluded that both the record republican Joseph Doherty began his eighth of prejudicial rulings in the 1988 trial and the year in federal prison here, 1,000 people DEFEND MARK CURTIS! evidence show that Curtis has never received attended a June 16 march and rally demand­ Materials avaUable from Mark Curtis Defense Committee: a fair trial on the frame-up charges against ing his release. him. The 1988 conviction, he argued, should The Stakes in the Worldwide Political Speakers included Doherty's mother Mau­ not be used to deny him the right to fight to reen, British attorney and activist Richard Campaign to Defend Mark Curtis by prove he was a frame-up victim in this new John Gaige. A pamphlet that explains the po­ Harvey, and Doherty's attorney Mary Pike. trial, Eichhorn argued. Several speakers referred to Nelson Mande­ litical background to Curtis' case, the frame­ After learning from both attorneys that up, and unfair trial. 25 pp. $1.00 la's U.S. visit and pointed out that mass Curtis is currently appealing his conviction support can win the release of political pris­ The Frame-Up of Mark Curtis, a VHS to the Iowa Supreme Court, Judge Gamble oners. video produced by Hollywood director Nick requested materials from the appeal as part After the rally, demonstrators marched to Castle. This effective 49-minute document~ry of his review of the motion for summary the Metropolitan Correctional Center in has dips from 1V news broadcasts on Curtis' judgment. Manhattan where Doherty is incarcerated. fight for justice, scenes from the trial, and in­ A large fmancial award in the Morrises' The street on which the center is located was terviews with Curtis, his wife- Kate Kaku, and lawsuit against Curtis could result in a life­ renamed "Joseph Doherty Comer" by New others. This video is available for the cost of long harassment campaign, including gar­ York Mayor David Dinkins the day before. reproduction and shipping. $10.00 nisheeing wages by the courts, to collect the "New York City does not name corners for debt from Curtis and his wife, Kate Kaku. criminals," Dinkins told the press, "Joseph Justice for Mark Curtis: 'An injury to Curtis was a packinghouse worker until he Doherty is a political prisoner and U.S. justice one is an injury to all.' Buttons. $1.00 was arrested in 1988, as was Kaku until she has been dead for seven years in the Doherty State of Iowa v. Mark Stanton Curtis. was laid off a few months ago. case." Transcript of September 1988 jury trial pro­ A dozen supporters of Curtis' fight for Doherty is a member of the Irish Repub­ ceedings that found Curtis guilty of rape and justice attended the court hearing, including lican Army, which is fighting to end the burglary. 446 pp. $30.00. Jim Armstrong and Harold Ruggless, the British occupation of the north of Ireland and president and vice-president of the United to reunite Ireland. He escaped from a North­ Brief of Mark Curtis' appeal to Iowa Supreme Court. 20 pp. $.50 Auto Workers Union Local 270 in Des em Ireland prison in 1981 and was sentenced Moines. Mark Stanton Curtis v. City of Des Moines, et al. Civil lawsuit brief in absentia to life imprisonment for his role submitted in U.S. District Court by Curtis claiming damages against Des Eichhorn and John Studer, the coordinator in an armed encounter with British troops. A Moines police who beat him after his arrest. 10 pp. $.50 of the Mark Curtis Defense Committee, ad­ British officer was killed during the conflict. dressed supporters outside. the. courtroom Doherty is currently awaiting the outcome For these and other materials write or call the Mark Curtis Defense Commit­ after the hearing. of a federal court appeal of decisions by two tee, P.O. Box 1048, Des Moines, Iowa 50311. Phone (515) 246-1695. Bulk "At every step we will fight to defeat U.S. attorney generals that are an attempt to quantities are available. Payments should accompany orders and checks can this attempt to attack Mark and Kate finan­ deport him to Northern Ireland and deny him be made out to Mark Curtis Defense Committee. Please allow 2 weeks for de­ cially," Studer said. "Every unionist who the right to reopen his application for political livery. has ever been forced out on strike knows asylum. A recent motion for bail is also what it is like from their own experience pending.

4 The Militant June 29, 1990 Curtis supporters get warm welcome from Finnish Communists BY RONI McCANN important to defend gains workers had al­ AND LASSE JOHANSSON ready won - including democratic rights VANTAA, Finland- Supporters of and the right to be in the union. framed union and political activist Mark Cur­ tis received a wann welcome here at a June Immigrant workers 2-3 conference of representatives and mem­ One participant wanted to know about the bers of the Kommunistinen TYovaenpuolue, situation of immigrant workers in the United (KTP, Communist Workers Party). States. He said Curtis' defense of immigrants Vantaa is an industrial suburb north of in his plant had something to do with him Helsinki, the capital of Fmland Many young being targeted by the authorities and the po­ workers and their families who move from lice. Referring to the fact that Curtis is a the northern part of the countty to find jobs socialist and political activist he said, "You live here because of the high cost and short­ can say you're for many different things but age of housing in Helsinki. The national as soon as you start to act - to defend the headquarters of the KTP is also located here. union, for example-that's what they can't The conference, attended by 150 delegates stand." and guests, was held at a local vocational Few immigrant workers live in Fmland, college. Curtis supporters had materials on which has a population of 5 million; but this the case in English and Swedish and copies is changing. Recently workers from Poland of the pamphlet The Frame-Up of Mark have come to Sweden and Fmland. Many are Curtis by Margaret Jayko. They also brought paid lower wages, making $4 an hour com­ a video that included a documentary on the pared to $12 that Fmnish workers earn. Most case produced by Hollywood film director are not union members. Some participants Nick Castle and a segment on the Curtis trial thought that if Finland joins the 12-member Coverage of Curtis' raght for justice in Finnish Food \\brkers Union newspaper (left) from the "On Trial" TV program, reproduced European Economic Community, more for­ and in Workers' News, the monthly of the Finnish Communist \\brkers Party. with Swedish subtitles. eign-born workers would immigrate to the Several conference participants had al­ countty. ready read about Curtis' case from two prior Tens of thousands of Finnish workers em­ Chicago rally in support of Curtis. The mes­ supporters visited the headquarters of the articles published in Tyokansan Sanomat igrate to Sweden, often getting the worst jobs sage, which expressed outrage at the victim­ union in Helsinki. The union organizes work­ (Workers' News), the monthly paper of the and suffering discrimination based on their ization and jailing of Curtis, was read by ers in the meat-packing, baking, food prvolunteering in Nicaragua; Puerto Rican poet At the end of th~ visit, Curtis reported to Piri Thomas; Sammye Roberts, past presi­ Kaku to participate in Denmark the Dress Out Room where inmates are dent of .Alabama National Organization for searched before being admitted back into the Women; and Des Moines community activ­ conference on human rights unit Curtis handed the change to the guard, ists Ako Abdul Samad and Edna Griffin. explaining that his wife had forgotten to take Others were past Des Moines Human Kate Kaku, a leader of the Mark Curtis mingham Six defense campaign in Britain, it. The guard told Curtis it was no problem, Rights Committee chair Alfredo Alvarez, Nan Defense Committee and Curtis' wife, left Kurdish rights in Turkey, the rights of the prison could either send it back to his Bailey, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Des Moines, Iowa, June 15 for Copenha­ indigenous peoples, anti-Semitism in the wife or put it in his account. He waved Curtis governor of Iowa; Doug Womack, president gen, Denmark, where the Conference on Soviet Union, the rights of oppressed na­ back into the prison. of United Auto Workers Local 879 in Mar­ Human Development is taking place. tionalities in Eastern Europe, government Five hours later Curtis was presented with shalltown, Iowa; musician Thiago de Mello; The gathering, which began in early blacklisting of political activists in West the disciplinary report. veteran civil rights leader Fred Shuttlesworth; June and goes through the end of the Germany, and other topics. Curtis has been in the John Bennett Unit and Rowena Moore of the Malcolm X Me­ month, runs parallel to the Conference on During her one-week stay in Denmark, for one month, after being transferred from morial Foundation in Omaha, Nebraska. Security and Cooperation in Europe. The Kaku will also be meeting with the chair­ the Iowa State Men's Reformatory at An­ On June 19 Curtis was informed that the CSCE is a product of the Helsinki "pr

June 29, 1990 The Militant 5 'Shugrue and Currey got to go!' unionists chant

Some 8,500 International Asso­ world. Readers - especially After an hour the 20 protesters United Steelworkers of America United Food and Commercial ciation of Machinists (lAM) mem­ Eastern strikers- are encour­ piled into cars and moved on to the Local 1013; Nathaniel Willoughby, Workers who were on strike against bers struck Eastern Airlines aged to send news of strike soli­ Greyhound bus station to be joined president Brotherhood of Mainte­ Gallo Salami at that time swelled the March 4, 1989, in' an effort to darity activities to this column. by other unionists and union sup­ nance of Way Lodge 992; and oth~ · picket, wearing uirion T-sbirts and porters. A picket line of 75 people ers. carrying signs from their strike. The formed. strikers -mainly Latinos -add­ SUPPORT The rally was initiated by striking • ed chants in Spanish, which were Greyhound workers, _members of Passengers arriving at the San enthusiastically taken up by the Amalgamated Transit Union Local Francisco International Airport May other picketers. EASTERN 1493, and Alabama Jobs With Jus­ 26 were greeted by a picket line of Leaflets for the picket had been tice. In less than two weeks more more than 100 unionists shouting, distributed at the airport, the main­ STRIKERS! than 2,500 rally fliers were distrib­ "We're still fighting! Don'tfly East­ tenance base at United Airlines, at uted at plant gates and mine en­ em!" and, "We want a conttact! the Gallo picket line, and at a rally trances. Don't fly Eastern!" for the Greyhound strike. Union block the company's drive to A spirited labor rally in Birming­ members from the lAM at United break the union and impose mas­ ham, Alabama, on June 2 drew ac­ The rally was endorsed by Ace People in passing cars waved and honked Other airline workers and TWA airlines joined the picket­ sive concessions on workers. tivists from many unions, who Trammel, president Alabama AFL­ ing, as did members of the United As of the Mililant's closing news formed a picket line and marched CIO; Norman McBroom, president, arriving to work accepted leaflets. One USAir ticket agent told a Farm Workers of America. date, Wednesday, June 20, the around the Eastern Airlines gate at Jefferson County Labor Council; Those attending the airport rally strike was in its 474th day. the airport. lAM District 100; Alabama Jobs strike supporter, "It makes a dif­ ference when you have these pick­ were invited to a June 1 rally to The Eastern workers' right has Their voices filled the airport With Justice; United Mine Workers support the Gallo strikers. won broad support from working with "Fly cheap, die cheap," "We of America (UMWA) International ets. Passengers ask us what it's people in the United States, Puerto are union," and "Shugrue and Union; Tommy Buchanan, UMWA about, and when we tell them, Alyson Kennedy, from Birmingham, Rico and the Caribbean, Canada, Currey got to go," referritlg to the International board member; Tom they're impressed that you're still Alabama, and Kathleen Denny from Bermuda, Sweden, New Zealand, chairmen of • Eastern and Grey­ Youngblood, UMWA District 20 · out here." San Francisco contributed to this France, and elsewhere in the hound. president; James Allen, president Twenty-five members of the column. ''We've been Shugrued!" say striking Machinists

Continued from front page partment at Kidder, Peabody in New York, Zealand, in South Africa, and elsewhere. lines our fight is not over. Martin Shugrue, 5 and from Atlanta to Cancun, Mexico, on is a member of Eastern's frequent-flier pro­ Of 8,500 lAM members who walked out, the new court-appointed trustee, has insisted July7. gram but told Mr. Shugrue that he had only a few hundred have crossed the line to that the airline can be run safely with scabs. • .A massive television and newspaper avoided the carrier for years because of his return to work. This is impossible. A fair and equitable set­ advertising campaign launched on June 17 concern over safety." When the leaderships of the pilots' and tlement with the lAM is the only way to put to convince the public to give Eastern another Shugrue responded, the Times reported, by flight attendants' unions ended their sympa­ the Lorenzo era behind us and defend the try. Shugrue joins the ranks of corporate stating that Eastern had been one of the most thy strikes last November and sent their mem­ interests of both Eastern's workers and its heads like Lee lacocca, Frank Perdue, and inspected airlines in the country and that all bers back to work, the Machinists continued passengers." Victor Kiam who make personal appearances the big carriers had been fined by the Federal to fight. In a number of cities, the lAM has recently in their company ads. He promises that "for Aviation Administration. organized a round of expanded picket lines. the next 100 days Eastern is going to get a Throughout the strike, the lAM has con­ Strikers' determination The flier from La Guardia calls for an little better every day." centrated on maintaining picket lines and What accounts for this stamina is the de­ expanded picket on June 23 from 11:00 a.m. • A luncheon at Eastern's expense on reaching out for solidarity. After 16 months termination of the strikers themselves. They to 2:00 p.m. at the airport. A similar action is June 6 in Atlanta for 400 travel agents to meet the strike of ramp workers, aircraft cleaners, vowed to stay "one day longer" than Frank planned at the Pittsburgh airport July 1 at 1 :00 with Shugrue- an attempt to win their con­ mechanics, stock clerks, and facility cleaners Lorenzo, and they did. p.m .. fidence to book customers and clients on the remains solid. Lorenzo failed in his attempts to break the A flier entitled "Freedom for Nelson airline. From San Francisco to Boston, and cities Machinists strike. Shugrue has been appoint­ Mandela, Justice for the Eastern Strikers" • A June 12 scab hiring session in Hous­ in between, support for the strike has grown. ed in the hope he can get the airline in shape calls for picketing June 30 from 10:00 a.m. ton, where Eastern plans to resume flights. Broad solidarity has also been won in Can­ and make it atttactive to potential buyers. to 11 :30 a.m. at the Detroit airport. Machin­ • Eastern's "Y-not" fare promotion, ada, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, Ber­ . A flier issued by the strikers at La Guardia ists plan to distribute the leaflet at tour activ­ which offers full refunds to first-class pas­ muda, France, Britain, Sweden, New airport in New York reads, "At Eastern Air- ities for the African National Congress leader. sengers who are not satisfied with the service. • Discounted one-way fares reaching below $50 for senior citizens. Children fly for $29 each way. Passenger ends up driving Greyhound bus Airline still in trouble Bus drivers have been on strike against zipping down the highway at speeds up to 65 to drive the bus." But Eastern remains in trouble. Each day Greyhound for over three months. On miles-per-hour with very little training. A woman Mr. Grazley and the union iden­ the company is losing $1 million, and the March 2, 9,300 members of the Amalga­ The following Associated Press story tified as Diane Monteiro, a licensed bus carrier's debt to unsecured creditors stands mated Transit Union (ATU), which in­ headlined, "Passengers Go Greyhound, and driver for another company, came forward. at $980 million. In May only 54 percent of cludes 6,300 drivers and some 3,000 Driving Is Left to Them," appeared in the ''The lady got there and tried to calm us the seats were filled. mechanics, cleaners, and clerks, walked June 16 New York Times. down," Ms. White said. "She did very well." There is also a dark cloud hanging over off the job after negotiations broke off. Eastern's safety record and maintenance * * * checks. A grand jury in New York has been The company demanded that ATU mem­ A bus passenger took the wheel investigating whether Eastern managers fal­ bers accept a contract that included no wage yesterday from a replacement driver sified maintenance records at Miami, Atlanta, increases, cuts in benefits, unlimited con­ for strike-plagued Greypound Bus and New York airports before the strike be­ ttacting out of routes and maintenance work, Lines and drove from Delaware to gan. and other union-weakening measures. New York after the driver told riders Concerns about safety have made business Since then, Greyhound has hired hundreds he didn't know how to use a stick travelers wary of flying ·on . Eastern. The of scab drivers in its effort to defeat the union. shift. June 9 New York Times reported, "One of the These drivers are pulling out of the depots in "I have been traumatized all day," travelers, Matt Sullivan, in the banking de- 38,000-pound, 40-foot-long buses and are said Rosa White, a Brooklyn native who was a passenger on the bus from State Road. Delaware, to the Port Au­ thority Bus Terminal in New York NEW FROM PATHFINDER City. "I went through the whole morn­ Special prepublication offer TRADE UNIONS ing like a zombie. In all my years, I IN THE OF have never been through something EPOCH like that." IMPERIAUST DECAY A spokesman for Greyhound, REGULAR BY LEON TROTSKY George Grazley, said the driver started PRICE at a junction in State Road and "it was $13.95 obvious very quickly that he could not drive that bus." "We don't know how the guy got through the training school," Mr. "More food for thought (and action) Grazley said. than will be found In any book by The driver, whom he would not anyone else on the union question." identify, was dismissed: Ms. White, 47, an office assistant - Fa"ell Dobbs, outstanding leader WLUDfS TRADE UNIONS THEIR of great battles In the Midwest that buiH PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE for Consolidated Edison, said she was , KARL MARX on the bus when it pulled into State Teamsters union In the 1930s. Road at about 5:00 a.m. Friday to switch drivers. In this collection. two outstanding leaders of the revolutionary "When he started to pull off, it workers' movement discuss the tasks of trade unions under sounded like he had clutch trouble," capitalism and their relationship to workers' fight for economic she said. "Then we get down the high­ justice and political power. The articles by Trotsky were written way and we get to the big trucks. He during the capitalist crises and the deep-going workers' almost ran us into one of those. He radicalizations of the early 1920s and the 1930s. was swerving. Available from Pathfinder bookstores listed on page 12, or by mall from Pathfinder, "And he made an announcement 410West St., New York, N.Y. 10014. Postage and handling: $1.00per book. that Trailways hadn't trained him to Greyhound striker warns passengers that scab shift the gears and he didn't know how drivers aren't safe drivers.

6 The Militant June 29, 1990 Gov't files charges against mine union; aids union-busting

Militant/Cecc:liaMoriarity at Massey Coal Cops arrest picketing miner at Rum Creek Coal - a Massey subsidiary -last January.

BY MAGGIE McCRAW residents and miners organized large protests Named in the charges are the UMWA pay all expenses for federal marshals Judge CHARLESTON, W.Va.- The federal to prevent coal from being moved. They were International, Charleston-based UMWA Dis­ Knapp ordered into Logan County; and that government's National Labor Relations met by violence and provocations from em­ trict 17, five local unions, and 20 miners and UMWA President Richard Trumka send a Board has filed charges against the United ployees of Con-Serv, an antiunion outfit that union officials. court-approved letter to all union members Mine Worlc:ers of America for "illegal" pick­ supplied bosses and scabs during a bitter Criminal contempt charges were filed explaining the charges and take other steps eting at an A.T. Massey Coal Co. subsidiary. 1984-85 UMWA strike against Massey in against Marty Hudson, coordinator of the to "purge" the union from contempt. The civil and criminal contempt charges, West Vrrginia and Kentucky. union's 11-month strike against Pittston, The board is pressing for fines and six­ filed in federal court on May 10, stem from In April1990 another Massey subsidiary, which ended in February this year. Also month jail terms for Hudson, Green, and the strike against Massey's Rum Creek Coal Dingess-Rum Coal Co., began preliminary named were Howard Green, the Executive Evans because they had been previously Sales and its nonunion contractors, Con-Serv, work to open a nonunion strip mine in Ethel, Board member, and Bernard Evans, an Inter­ charged with violating court orders and are Inc. and Mate Creek Trucking. a short distance from DeHue. national representative. Green and Evans co­ specifically named in a 1987 "broad order." Rum Creek Coal closed its ·operation in Protests are being organized in Ethel, ordinated picketing at Pittston's mines in The "broad order'' is an extremely restric­ DeHue, Logan County, and declared bank­ where Massey has evicted families, blocked Logan County. tive permanent injunction handed down fol­ ruptcy in July 1989. The owners blamed its public roads, and is threatening to destroy The NLRB, acting on the Massey com­ lowing the miners' defeat in the 1984-85 financial woes on the Pittston Coal strike, family grave sites. plaint. is asking the court for a sweeping strike against Massey. In that walkout miners which began in March. The Pittston strikers UMWA International Executive Board judgment against the miners' union. The in southern West Virginia and eastern Ken­ were supported by widespread sympathy member Howard Green said, "Massey wants complaint asks the court to name U.S. District tucky attempted to beat back Massey's de­ walkouts by UMWA miners throughout Ap­ a major nonunion complex in Logan County, Judge Dennis Knapp as permanent "special mand for concessions and sought a single, palachia and the Midwest starting in June like Elk Run in Boone County and Marrow­ master" to hear the charges. Knapp has ruled company-wide contract patterned on the na­ 1989. The Rum Creek miners joined these bone in Mingo County." against the union for decades. tional contract between the UMWA and the actions. Massey's complaint and the National It also asks that the International and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association. A few weeks after the bankruptcy filing, Labor Relations Board charges are an attempt district be fined $10,000 for each alleged The order severely limits strike activity the company canceled its contract with the to restrict the community and the union and violation; that named individuals be fined against Ma&sey, any Massey subsidiary, and union and reopened nonunion. to pave the way for establishing a nonunion $1 ,000 per violation; the union be forced to at any company doing business with Massey. Picket lines were set up and community enclave in the southwestern part of, the state. pay NLRB costs and attorneys fees; the union It restricts such activity in West Vrrginia, · '• ' f c· · ·•· Kentucky, and Pennsylvania The order required the union to mail the injunction to all its members and to hold Cops frame up Earth First! bomb victims meetings to explain it. It requires that before any strike, union officers must conduct "train­ BY SANDRA LEE The message provided accurate details of Local 2949 of the Lumber and Sawmill ing programs" to explain the order, monitor OAKLAND, Calif. -Two leaders of the matching never-disclosed information about Worlc:ers Union at Roseburg Forest Products picketing, and must deny strike benefits to any environmentalist group Earth First! were ar­ a bomb that blew up in Ooverdale, Sonoma in Roseburg, Oregon. He is a member of the miner who violates the injunction. Ftve pages rested here while hospitalized as a result of County, on May 9 that police have been trying Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network, a co­ of the order are devoted to procedures the injuries sustained when the car they w<;re to blame on Earth Ftrst! alition of organizations whose goal is to bring union must follow in any future strike. Large traveling in exploded. On May 24 a pipe The letter has been turned over to the together environmentalists and workers. fines were also imposed against the union. bomb planted in the back seat of the car went Federal Bureau of Investigation for analysis. Lawhorn described press conferences held ThecurrentNLRB petition seeks to expand off near Oakland High School, severely in­ The Oakland police and Alameda County this April in Oregon and California by Earth the "broad order," asking for higher fmes, juring the car's driver, Judi Bari, and passen­ district attorney's office, which so far has First! activists where they renounced the tac­ further debarment of miners and union offi­ ger Darryl Cherney. balked at filing formal charges in the case, tic of spiking trees to thwart their being cut cials from picketing, and more restrictions on Bari is hospitalized in Highland Hospital. have declined to comment on this latest tum down. Tree spiking is the practice of driving strike benefits for those found in contempt. She was being held under police custody in of events. long spikes into a tree so that when a chain Green said, "We feel the union will be lieu of$100,000 bail. Bari and Cherney were In a telephone interview from his home in saw hits the spike, it can shatter and cause vindicated on these charges. A number of accused of transporting the explosive device Sutherlin, Oregon, unionist Gene Lawhorn, serious injury to the person working the saw. Massey employees have been charged with that hurt them. who has worked with Bari, talked about the 'The renouncing of tree spiking in Oregon violence, including attempted murder. They Darryl Cherney is currently free, his connection between the fight to save the and California is a big step in bridging the have violated the rights of the community $100,000 bail raised by supporters. Activists environment and workers' rights. gap between workers and environmental­ and the union. Their cases have not yet been held steady vigils at Oakland police head­ Lawhorn is a lumber worker and member ists," said Lawhorn. heard, all the facts have not come out." quarters until bail was raised and Cherney released on May 28. Earth First! is a loosely knit nationwide Protests across Canada meet abortion restrictions group of environmental activists founded in 1980 under the slogan, "No compromise in BY SUSAN BERMAN inal offense. Under provisions of Bill C-43 anyone per­ defense of Mother Earth." It conducts re­ MONTREAL-"Criminelles-plus ja­ Since the day the law was struck down the forming or participating in an "illegal" abor­ search and compiles statistics on environmen­ mais! (Criminals - never again)" and opponents of abortion rights have been trying tion can receive a prison term of up to two tal problems. It believes that ozone depletion "Keep your laws off my body" were chanted to lay the groundworlc: for imposing a new years. and destruction offorests threaten ecological by 150 abortion rights demonstrators as they law and restricting access to abortion. A number of abortion clinics in Quebec ruination and demand radical solutions. marched from the Montreal Court House to Today in the province of Prince Edward have announced that they will continue After the explosion, police and federal Conservative Party headquarters. In Vancou­ Island, hospitals perform no abortions. In performing abortions in defiance of the agents searched Bari's and Cherney's homes ver, British Columbia, 180 people marched Halifax, Nova Scotia, Dr. Henry Morgen­ new legal restrictions. The Quebec gov­ in Mendocino and Humbolt counties north to the office of federal Justice Minister Kim taler, an abortion rights veteran, is currently ernment immediately responded by an­ of here. They admitted they found no bombs Campbell. Four hundred demonstrated in To­ facing 14 charges of performing abortions in nouncing that it will file criminal charges or explosive materials. ronto. an independent clinic, which is considered against doctors who violate the law. Organizers of Earth First! say the two lead­ More than 20 demonstrations were held illegal in that province. His Halifax clinic has Women who have "illegal" abortions can ers had been receiving several anonymous across Canada on May 25 to protest Bill been barred from performing abortions since be charged and jailed as well. death threats recently. A dozen people have C--43, a bill to recriminalize abortion. Two Nov. 6, 1989. This is a dramatic turnaround from the received letters similar to the one sent to Earth weeks earlier, several thousand people dem­ William Vander Zalm 's Social Credit gov­ policy that the Quebec government has fol­ Ftrst! spokesperson Daniel Barron reading, onstrated for abortion rights in 16 cities. ernment in British Columbia froze all funds lowed for the past 13 years. Under the pres­ "We have distributed your phone number to The bill was finally approved by the House for abortions in that province one month after sure of mass sentiment and action in favor of every organized hate group." It was signed of Commons on May 29 by a vote of 140 to the Supreme Court decision. While his gov­ abortion rights, Quebec has been the one "Committee for the Death of Earth First!" 131. This decision was met by a new round ernment was forced to lift the freeze, he province where the federal law has not been Authorities in Mendocino County, where of demonstrations across the country. subsequently launched a $4 million caril­ applied. A new fight has now opened up to many of the Earth First! activists live, refused On Jan. 28, 1988, the Supreme Court of paign to convince women to not have abor­ determine whether this will continue to be to investigate any of these threats. Canada ruled that the 1969 federal law on tions. the case. On May 31 a three-page, single-spaced abortion violated the Canadian Charter of The new law once again makes abortions The May 25 actions were the second round typed message was delivered to the Santa Rights and Freedoms by denying women illegal except where a woman's psychologi­ of nationally coordinated demonstrations. On Rosa Press Democrat, the paper of a town, the right to control their bodies. Before the cal, mental, or physical health is endangered, May 12 several thousand people demon­ between here and Mendocino. Supreme Court ruling abortion was a crim- as determined by a physician. strated for abortion rights in 16 cities.

June 29,'1990 The Militant 7 Nicaraguan government's policies step up erosion of land reform Militant/Seth Galinsky Farm workers on coffee plantation, northern Nicaragua. Land reform carried out in early years of revolution was slowed to a halt by 1989, leaving hundreds of thousands of peasants landless.

BY SUSAN APSTEIN teed credit and marketing and technical as­ Equally critical were government credit pol­ contra attacks. MANAGUA, Nicaragua-Two laws on sistance to peasants, along with insuring other icies and other fonns of assistance to small These measures underlined the challenge property ownership decreed by President rights. It also advocated measures to "stim­ fanners. facing the revolution, which was to strength­ Violeta Chamorro in May are aimed at ac­ ulate and encourage the peasants to organize In the ftrst year after the revolution, almost en the organization, self-confidence, and con­ celerating the erosion of gains made by rural themselves in cooperatives." half of all small fanners received credit from sciousness of working people in both the working people in the early years of the Immediately after the July 1979 triumph, the government for the first time in their lives countryside and cities. This would bring them Nicaraguan revolution. the new government expropriated the estates - 70,000 families. The banks, which had increasingly in conflict with the prerogatives One measure calls for the "review" of all owned by the Somoza family and its close been taken over by the revolutionary govern­ of the capitalists and their domination of expropriations during the past 11 years. The allies. These holdings represented 20 percent ment, financed up to 100 percent of the costs production and trade. And it would ultimately second decree authorizes the immediate leas­ of the country's agricultural land. The gov­ of planting and harvesting each crop, at low pose expropriating the exploiters and taking ing of some state farmland to fonner owners, ernment organized state farms on these prop­ interest rates. The government supplied credit steps to establish a planned economy. This as a step toward eventual return of the land erties. in the. form of seeds, tools, and fertilizers. would have made possible a strengthening of to capitalist hands. The measure does not However, hundreds of thousands of rural The bank also allowed fanners to buy the vital alliance between workers and small include property taken.from former dictator working people remained landless, or with imported supplies and equipment at a subsi­ peasants, and a securing ofthe small peasants' Anastasio Somoza and his close associates. plots too small to provide a living. As the dized price by maintaining an artificially low ability to make a decent living. These moves are the most recent in a series revolution advanced, putting the interests of official exchange rate for the national cur­ But instead of proceeding in this direction, of steps that began under the fonner San­ the toilers ahead of capitalist property rights rency. the FSLN top leadership and the government dinista National Liberation Front govern­ and prerogatives, poor peasants stepped up began more and more to subordinate the ment and have been leading to worsening their demands for land distribution. New roads built interests of the small peasants to the policy conditions for poor peasants and reconcen­ In 1980 and 1981, peasants organized and The Ministry of Agrarian Development of seeking an accord with the capitalists based tration of land among capitalist fanners and mobilized in growing numbers, carrying out and Refonn built roads in areas of the interior on maintaining their property rights and pre­ landowners. massive demonstrations and land takeovers. highlands where often there had been no way rogatives. The struggle of poor peasants for land was Thirty thousand peasants and fann work­ to get harvests out to the market By 1984 As the economic costs of the war and the one of the

8 The Militant June 29, 1990 lnt'l fighters greet socialist convention Grenada, S. Africa leaders welcomed BY GREG McCARTAN leader noted, "is a contribution to the cause CHICAGO -Terry Marryshow, leader of international peace and justice and soli­ of the Maurice Bishop Patriotic Movement darity." in Grenada, and Yusuf Saloojee, representing Bringing "warm and revolutionary greet­ the African National Congress, were among ings" to the convention, Terry Marryshow the intemational.guests at the 35th Conven­ said, "We of the Maurice Bishop Patriotic tion of the Socialist Worlcers Party, held here Movement are continuing our struggles June 7-10. · within Grenada to put Grenada back on the Saloojee, who is the head of the ANC's world stage of politics. The revolution of North American and Caribbean Desk of the 1979-83, led by Maurice Bishop, our greatest Department of International Affairs in hero and martyr, changed the course of pol­ Lusaka, Zambia, was welcomed by thunder­ itics in Grenada in an irreversible way." ous applause and chants of"ANC! ANC!" at Due to the recent events in Eastern Europe, the opening of his greetings to the meeting. Marryshow said, "we can better understand "We bring to you a message of hope for the phenomenon of Stalinism, and the role it the building of a new, nonracial, democratic played in the destruction of the Grenada South Africa," he said. revolution." In 1983 a counterrevolutionary The "beginning of a new era," in South faction led by Bernard Coard overthrew the Africa, he said, is the result of several devel­ revolution and assassinated Bishop and other opments. One is the mass protests in the leaders. United States and Europe that forced corpo­ Despite the collapse of governments in rations and governments to impose economic Eastern Europe, and their warming relations photos by Eric Simpson and other sanctions against the apartheid re­ with Washington, "We see for ourselves, with Thrry Marryshow (left) and Yusuf Saloojee give greetings to convention. gime. the invasion of Grenada, with the invasion of In addition, Saloojee said, the continued Panama, and the low-intensity wars waged struggle by millions of people in South Af­ against the peoples of Nicaragua, Angola, nam, and Nicaragua. Without Cuba's contri­ Greetings from the Central Committee of rica, "spearheaded by the Congress of South and Kampuchea, that we can never afford to bution to the struggle against the apartheid the Worlcers' Party of Korea, the governing African Trade Unions," and the armed strug­ let our guard down for one single minute - regime, he added, "the changes that are taking party in the Democratic People's Republic of gle, "made the country ungovernable," dur­ even though imperialism is in crisis and is place today in southern Africa, the indepen­ Korea, were also read. Officials of the North ing the 1980s. even dying." dence of Namibia, the release of Nelson Korean government are barred from traveling "A major regional contribution," he con­ Revolutionary Cuba is "the greatest exam­ Mandela-all of this could not have been in the United States outside of a 25-mile zone tinued, which is "one we will never forget," ple ofconfronting imperialist aggression, and possible." around the United Nations in New York. is that of "the heroic people of Cuba for probably the greatest example in the world to­ "Cuba remains," he said, "a shining exam­ The Central Committee sent "warm con­ throwing the so-called invincible South Afri­ day of a country which stands out as a beacon ple of what building socialism is all about, gratulations," and "friendly greetings" to the can Defense Force out of Angola, particularly and symbol of hope, and inspiration for the through relying on the consciousness and convention and members of the SWP. It noted at the battle of Cuito Cuanavale" in 1988. oppressed peoples of~ Third World," he abilities of its people, of its worlcers and the convention would make a contribution to The situation in South Africa today re­ said. farmers - and also through its internation­ "the struggle to achieve the democratic free­ quires the "continued solidarity on your part." Marryshow described Cuba's internation­ alist perspective. It is therefore our historic dom and rights of the worKing popular Noting several victories scored recently alist aid to Ethiopia, Grenada, Yemen, Viet- responsibility to insure that Cuba survives." masses against imperialism." against the system of apartheid, Saloojee explained, "In the next few months, after 30 years in exile, the ANC will move its head­ quarters back into South Africa." Freed Salvadoran artist visits mural For a constituent assembly BY MERYL LYNN FARBER days imprisonment, the Salvadoran govern­ mary and is currently living in San Francisco The ANC is demanding "free and fair NEW YORK- After a broad campaign ment dropped the charges and released Mata. where he is worKing with a number of graphic elections for a constituent assembly where forced the Salvadoran government to release Imelda lraita was also released from the arts groups and cultural centers. every South African will have the right to him from prison, artist Isaias Mata recently women's state prison. When he saw the completed Pathfinder vote," in o(der to establisb .a ·~nonraci,U Soudr ~~ .a:-',i.~it ~ .$e J;>a.tJ:lfu!d~r, M~~; . , .. ·...... Advised by his lawyers to leave El Salva­ Mural for the first time Mata's response was, ATrica:·a·'C:temocratic 'soudl'.Afriba:, '·ana ·i Mata, born mEl Salvador, was arrested ori dor;Mata 'canie·to the United States mFeb- "It's beautiful!" united South Africa." Nov. 19, 1989, by Salvadoran security forces. ''The victory we have earned," the ANC He was picked up in downtown San Salvador along with his colleague, Imelda lraita, by heavily armed men dressed in civilian cloth­ Friends of Pathfinder Mural plan In Catalunya, ing. He was thrown into a jeep and taken to the Treasury Police station. After being held big publicity during Mandela tour for 16 days, Mata was transferred to Mariona, immigrants rally the state prison. The formal charges against Mata included for their rights that he was a "university ideologue" and "in" volved with international solidarity groups." BY MIKE EAUDE In the summer of 1989, Mata, a professor BARCELONA, Spain- The Autono­ at the University of El Salvador School of mous Government of Catalunya centered Art, traveled to the United States to raise here prides itself on defending the rights of material aid for the school and promote the the Catalan minority in Spain. But this same work of Salvadoran artists. While in New spirit doesn't extend to .immigrant worlcers, York, Mata added the portraits ofFarabundo especially those who are Black, who face Martf and Archbishop Oscar Romero, mar­ racism and discrimination in this city. tyred fighters for justice in El Salvador, to A rally of 400 immigrant worlcers, the first the Pathfinder Mural. of its kind, was held in Ciutadella Parle here The mural, a six-story worlc of art in May 6. Entitled "Catalunya in Solidarity with Manhattan's West Side, includes the portraits Immigrants," the rally was called by a range of revolutionary fighters from all over the of Black groups and supported by trade union world. and Christian organizations. 1be Salvadoran artist explained that once A manifesto of the event demanded repeal he was transferred to Mariona, his wife was of Spain's 1985 immigration law. The legis­ able to visit him twice a week and he found lation was adopted by the Madrid government out that supporters in San Francisco, Califor­ to "regularize" the situation of immigrant nia, had formed a committee and were work­ worlcers. In concert with other governments ing to secure his freedom. of the 12-member European Community, the It was not until he was released that he Spanish capitalist rulers aim to open up the realized the magnitude of the effort and the country's borders with the EC while tighten­ wide range of people who came to his defense ing restrictions on immigration from Asia, and the defense of the other victims of the Africa, and Latin America. Salvadoran government's wave of repression. Speakers at the rally denounced the dis­ "I found out that nationally and interna­ criminatory application of the law. Large tionally," explained Mata, "performing artists Friends of the Pathfinder Mural display in Chicago at recent Socialist \\h,rken numbers of Black worlcers are forced to live such as Holly Near, the band U-2, Bonnie Party convention. and worlc illegally, often doing the worst jobs Raitt, Jackson Browne, actors Ed Asner, Raul and deprived of democratic rights. Julia, stars from the TV series "L.A. Law," During Nelson Mandela's tour of the indicted on obscenity charges in an attempt In recent months police pressure in the visual artists, professors, and members of United States, the Friends of the Pathfinder by censors to close down an exhibition of streets of Barcelona has become so great that Congress from around the country, and others Mural group plans to distribute its materi­ photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. few Blacks venture into the city. Most live from around the world sent messages to the als at Mandela events in eight cities. 1be Barrie was in Chicago for a conference of in Matar6, 30 kilometers to the north, where Salvadoran government and sent money to African National Congress leader's por­ museum directors. wages are very low as a result of the illegality help free me." trait is featured in the mural and is the Yusuf Saloojee, a representative of the imposed on the worlcers. In the Matar6 textile Mata thanked all those who participated subject of a poster and postcard the Friends ANC, accepted a complimentary Mandela mills, the wages are as low as 50,000 pesetas in winning his freedom, including from artists will be selling. poster from the table. Many participants (US$475) a month. who showed that "there are no borders be­ Visitors to the Chicago display included at the SWPconvention picked up materials Rally speakers pointed to the willingness tween artists." Dennis Barrie, the director of the Contem­ for distribution in their local areas, includ­ of the Spanish government to hail Nelson 1be Artists Committee to Free Isaias Mata porary Arts Center in Cincinnati who was ing 240 Mandela posters. Mandela while condoning discrimination and organized lawyers to go to El SalvadOr to racism within its own house. press the inquiry. After one month and two June 29, 1990 TheMllitant 9 Mandela gets giant welcome in N.Y. Calls for continued sanctions against apartheid J Continued from front page man in the country should be able to exercise dela's arrival, Randall Robinson, of placards, hand-made signs, and T-shirts were the vote. What brings about changes ... is the anti-apartheid organization Trans­ held or worn by many. The black, green, and the type of action which we are prepared to Africa, said the South African gov­ gold colors of the ANC were visible every­ embark upon in order to bring about those ernment is attempting "to window­ where. changes." dress apartheid. Three thousand polit­ AS Mandela's motorcade proceeded down "We are therefore appealing to you, in all ical prisoners remain in jail and apart­ the parade route, cheers of "He's coming! humility, and in all sincerity, that you must heid remains intact with laws He's coming!" went up. Waves of applause, join us in the internal action that you are untouched." cheers, and clenched fists greeted Mandela taking to force the government to abandon Noting that the sanctions law and his delegation as the motorcade moved apartheid. You must join us, and the only way adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1986 down the packed street. in which we can work together on this diffi­ stipulates the measures cannot be lift­ "Mandela's coming to the United States is cult road is for you to ensure that sanctions ed until "there is a substantial disman­ a symbol of progress and hope," one parade are applied," he said. tling of apartheid," Robinson urged participant said. "Maybe it will help improve Mandela, released from prison in Febru­ sanctions be maintained. the conditions of Black Americans and we ary, had served 27 and a half years of a life Laws such as the Group Areas Act, will see our problems as international-we sentence on charges of sabotage. A 30-year which restricts where Blacks can own will relate to South Africans and they to us." ban on the ANC was also lifted the same land and live, and the Population Reg­ Another, holding a "Free South Africa!" month. Since then an accelerated wave of istration Act, which classifies people poster, said, "I'm glad they rolled out the red strikes, mass rallies, and protests in South according to race have not been re­ carpet for him after what he's done and been Africa and a worldwide diplomatic offensive pealed, he pointed out through." by the ANC have increased the pressure on Jim Bell, vice-president of United "This is a historic moment," said a woman the apartheid regime. Auto Workers District 65, said the tour Nelson Mandela in New \brk straining to get a glimpse of the motorcade. Mandela's visits to the United States and would deliver a "political message to "Mandela for me embodies all of the qualities Canada are part of a 13-country tour to rally New York and the world. We will carry that At the rally outside the mayor's office and struggles that distinguish Black people." tens of millions internationally to the struggle message to Washington, D.C." Entertainer Mandela told the enthusiastic crowd, ''The New York Gov. Mario Cuomo told the wel­ to end apartheid. The tour follows a nine­ Harry Belafonte added, "Mrican countries, Black people ofSouth Africa are busy chang­ coming event that Mandela has "become to country trip by South African President F.W. the Frontline States - whose future depends ing the political scene in our country. The the whole world what he has been to his own de Klerk in May to drum up support for lifting on the ending of apartheid - will look to the dreams of those who once hoped that they people for more than a quarter of a century the sanctions. U.S. people to keep the pressure on until would remain forever the masters- with -a new symbol of courage, a new symbol A leader of the ANC prior to his arrest in apartheid is ended and Mrica is free." the Blacks as servants -those dreams have of valor, a new symbol of hope." 1962, Mandela had organized protests and ANC leader Zwelakhe Sisulu, who is also been completely shattered by the actions of editor of the New Nation newspaper in South the people. We hope that this visit will help He urged the New York state legislature campaigns of defiance against apartheid Africa, is part of Mandela's delegation. to strengthen the struggle in our own coun­ to "pass, without further delay, the bill that laws. When the government banned the or­ "More people are dying today in our coun­ try." requires New York State to divest its holdings ganization in 1960 and stifled peaceful dis­ try than at any other time in our history," he "The people of South Africa have made in companies doing business in or with South sent, Mandela began organizing an armed told the press conference. "This is done under great sacrifices, and will make as many more Mrica." struggle against the racist regime. the banner of the right wing, instead of the as necessary to bring about a united, nonra­ Mayor Dinkins said to Mandela, "We will Breadth of support government. But the government is respon­ cial, nonsexist, and democratic South M­ pressure the banks and the businesses that The U.S. tour is being organized by the sible for what does and does not happen" in rica," he said. provide the financial underpinnings of apart­ the country. heid, and we will help to support the trade broadest coalition of organizations and indi­ "The new South Mrica," said Mandela, unions seeking economic justice" in South viduals ever assembled for an anti-apartheid Chris Dlamini, the vice-president of "will be a country which banishes forever Mrica. event, including trade unions, churches, en­ COSATU, said that because of the sanctions, racism in all its forms." It will be a country tertainers, anti-apartheid organizations, The ANC leader said he was honored to which the union federation supports, and "the that says, "Give me your tired, your poor, elected officials, civil rights organizations, be received by the dignitaries, and "equally actions of progressive forces, today we see your huddled masses yearning to breathe and others. Buses are being reserved in many important, to be received by the masses of Nelson Mandela released, the ANC un­ free." It will not be long, he concluded, "until areas for travel to mass rallie~. the people who have throughout these years banned, and talk of negotiations." Dlarnini South Africa will be free." set the tempo for the immense support which In addition to rallies and other events in added, ''Trade unions in this country have Mandela 's next tour stops are Boston, we, in our struggle against racial oppression, eight cities, Mandela will address the United played a role of support for trade unions in June 23; Washington D.C., June ' 24-26; have received from here." Nations General Assembly and Congress. He our country," and he urged continued labor Atlanta, June 27; Miami and Detroit, June will also meet with President George Bush. support for the union movement in South 28; Los ·Angeles, June 29; and Oakland, June Sanctions are needed, the ANC leader said, At a press conference the day before Man- Africa. 30. because "it is no use to demand that apartheid should destruct, to demand that every Black Canadian cities greet ANC leader

Continued from front page islature at Queen's Park. Lampposts along gathered here to hear Mandela in the rain on at the stage where we can say with confidence the route were decorated in ANC colors. June 19. that changes in South Africa are profound Thousands more were already there when the The rally had been organized by the and irreversible. It is therefore logical that march reached its destination. Montreal City Council. Mayor Jean Dore sanctions should remain in place." Anglican Archbishop Edward Scott, pres­ introduced the South Mrican leader. Rally participants responded with pro­ ident of the International Defence and Aid The crowd listened to Mandela's speech longed applause and chants of "Mandela" Fund for Southern Africa in Canada, chaired with serious attention, but repeatedly inter­ and "Amand/a" (Power). Thousands waved the Queen's Park rally, where Mandela spoke. rupted with loud applause and cheers. Many ANC flags and wore gold, green, and black Brief appearances by Mayor Eggleton, wore anti-apartheid T-shirts and buttons. Oth­ anti-apartheid T-shirts. Ontario Premier David Peterson, and federal ers wore T-shirts and buttons and carried flags Participants in the rally came from across External Affairs Minister Joe Oark were met of the struggle against the national oppression southern Ontario. One group of a dozen peo­ with boos. In contrast, the crowd cheered of- the Quebecois. ple traveled 1,100 miles from Halifax, Nova loudly as Ontario New Democratic Party The connection between the two struggles Scotia. leader Bob Rae and Black Action Defense was reinforced in the concert surrounding Flags and banners from the Metropolitan Committee representative Dudley Laws were Mandela 's speech when Gilles Vigneault, one Toronto Labour Council, the Canadian Auto introduced. of Quebec's best-known artists, sang a song Workers (CAW), United Brotherhood ofCar­ While the rally continued for four hoUrs closely identified with the movement for This issue of New International penters, United Electrical Workers, United in a festive mood, with speeches and music, Quebec's national rights. focuses on the revolutionary struggle Steelworkers of America, United Food and Mandela left for a state dinner in his honor The rally chairman introduced the Native in South Africa, its impact throughout Commercial Workers, and Ontario Public hosted by Canada's Prime Minister Brian artist Kashtin, making the point that while southern Africa and worldwide, and Service Employees unions could be seen. Mulroney. In a talk there, Mandela recalled South Africa is the worst reservation in the the tasks of opponents of apartheid in Two busloads of workers came from CAW the ANC decision to begin the armed struggle whole world, there are reservations in Canada the labor movement internationally. Local 1967 at the McDonnell Douglas air­ against apartheid in 1961, saying, "We did as well. Oliver Jones and Charles Biddies, The feature article, The Coming craft plant. not hesitate." two well-knownjazzmen, also played a piece Revolution in South Africa by Jack Mandela's visit to Canada began in Ot­ Mulroney pledged US$5 million to help dedicated to Mandela. Barnes, discusses the national, tawa, the country's capital, where the gov­ South African exiles and political prisoners Mandela then went on to a packed meeting democratic revolution to overthrow ernment accorded him an official welcome resettle once they are free. He also promised at the Union United Church in the working­ the South African apartheid regime of the type usually reserved for visiting heads that the Canadian government would not ease class community of Saint-Henri. This event and establish a nonracial democratic of state. While there he addressed a joint its sanctions against South Africa. was specially organized for Montreal's Black republic. session of the two chambers of the federal community to have an opportunity to hear Parliament. The following morning, Mandela spoke to Mandela. Also included: a meeting of more than 1,000 enthusiastic • The Freedom Charter students who packed the Central Technical Joe Norton, chief of the Kahnawake Na­ 'Nelson Mandela Day' tive reservation, welcomed to "Mohawk • The Future Belongs to the High School auditorium, chanting, "Viva him Majority, a message by African In the afternoon Mandela flew to Toronto, Mandela!" Students cheered his call for their territory." This remark drew enthusiastic ap­ National Congress President Oliver where more than 10,000 people gathered at help in raising funds for the Nelson Mandela plause from the 1,000 people in the street Tambo City Hall for his first scheduled speech. But, Fund. Its purpose, he explained, is to aid listening to the meeting on loudspeakers. • Why Cuban Volunteers Are in tired by his hectic schedule, he canceled his South Africa's Black students who face "a Describing racism as a "cancer," Mandela Angola, three speeches by Cuban appearance. Toronto Mayor Art Eggleton de­ reign of terror by police" and education said, "We should fight racism in all of its President Fidel Castro clared the occasion Nelson Mandela Day and "vastly inferior to that available to whites." forms wherever it rears its ugly head." made Mandela an honorary citizen of To,. On his arrival in Montreal, he had met Send $7 to New International, 410 West ronto. Wmnie Mandela accepted on his be­ briefly with Quebec's provincial Prime Min­ Street, New Yorlc, N.Y. 10014 half and spoke briefly to the rally. BY JOANNE PRITCHARD ister Robert Bourassa and several other prom­ Then she led a march to the Ontario leg- MONTREAL- Some 20,000 people . inent people. 10 lb,Mnitant June 29, 1990 Pennsylvania miners welcome AN C leader BY HOLLY HARKNESS noted Saloojee. "It's true-but who has AND STEVE MARSHALL changed him? Who gets the credit?" IMPERIAL. Pa. -When members of the Pushing back some of the repressive leg­ United Mine Worlcers of America (UMWA) islation in South Africa "is not a victory for here,' on strike against Aloe Coal Co., heard de Klerlc, or for the National Party- it is a that a representative of the African National victory for all South Africans. But most im­ Congress was coming to the Pittsburgh area, portant, it is a victory for hundreds of thou­ they quickly organized unionists to greet him. sands, for millions of Black South Africans, . AtaJune 15rallyofsome lOOstrikersand who have struggled since 1652," Saloojee other unionists, ANC leader Yusuf Saloojee said. "You, the international community, and said, ''This is the most important gathering I we, the people of South Africa. must take full have spoken at because it gives me the op­ credit for what is happening." portunity to talk to worlcers and fighters." The The ANC representative also spoke at the meeting was held outdoors, at Camp Solidar­ University of West Vuginia in Morgantown ity North-a farm used by the UMWA as to a meeting of 80. The event was organized an organizing center for the Aloe strike. by Prof. Wilbert Jenkins and Mary Brown of Saloojee, the head of the North American the local NAACP. In nearby Fairmont he met and Caribbean Desk of the ANC Department with UMWA District 31 President Eugene of International Affairs in Lusaka, Zambia. Claypole and miners' union International Ex­ spent four days in northern West Vuginia and ecutive Board member Steve Webber. Pennsylvania. speaking at public meetings, Saloojee's speeches were reported in the to union members and officials, and at nu­ Charleston Gazette, the Morgantown Do­ merous press events. minion Post, and the Pittsburgh Press. Sev­ Mine workers in South Africa are "among eral television and radio stations aired African National Congress leader Yusuf Saloojee visits miners' camp in Pennsylvania, the poorest in the world," Saloojee said. interviews with the ANC leader. June 15. ''They produce great wealth, but they get nothing for it. They are separated from their families for all but one week a year." Through their struggles against these con~ Cuban diplomat speaks in Minnesota ditions, mine worlcers in South Africa have "created a giant union - the National Union lution in our country, I can be the first secre­ government of Fulgencio Batista in 1959, ofMineworlcers. They understand their strug­ BY WILL REISSNER MINNEAPOLIS -In a whirlwind visit tary of the Cuban Interests Section in Wash­ "our country had massive problems," Adlum gle is global,"he said to Minnesota that lasted barely 24 hours, ington, D.C." explained. He pointed to the 1.2 rilillion illit­ Solidarity messages were given at the rally Cuban diplomat Clinton Adlum addressed Adlum traced the process that forged the erates in Cuba in 1959, the 600,000 unem­ by AI Miller, president of UMWA Local audiences on African Liberation Day at the Cuban nation, dating it back to Cuba's ftrst ployed, and the discrimination and oppression 9636, on strike against Aloe; Dave Michel, Zion Baptist Church in the Black community revolution against Spanish colonial rule in of women and Blacks in the country. UMWA International Representative; Don­ here and at the University of Minnesota. 1868. In response to questions, the Cuban diplo­ ald Redman, president of UMWA District 5; Adlum also met with political and cultural "Before that," Adlum maintained, "we had mat discussed the "rectification campaign" 8nd Carl Puskar, of the International Associ­ figures and attended a labor breakfast. Africans, Spaniards, and Creoles [Cuban- . that has been underway in his country since ation of Machinists Local 1044 Eastern Air­ Adlum's meetings on May 25, sponsored born whites], but no Cubans." It was in the 1986. "While rectification is our process of lines strike committee. by the recently fornied U.S.-Cuban Friend­ revolution against Spanish rule and against change," Adlum stated, "we oppose changes "Apartheid is still very much alive," the ship Committee and the Africana Student slavery that "for the ftrst time the term that would take us back to where we came ANC leader said "Nelson Mandela is out of Cultural Center at the University of Minne- 'Cuban' had any meaning." · from." prison. but he has to live in a Black township, sota. drew large audiences. . As Cuba was about to win its indepen­ Among the problems highlighted by the and doesn't have the right to vote." Saloojee The Cuban diplomat remarlced that his dence from Spain in 1898, Adlum noted, "the rectification campaign was the need for said. reception in the Twin Cities was marked by United States declared war on Spain, using greater participation by women and Afro-Cu­ Sa}09jee also ~4J::essed a g~g ~f 175. "great warmth" and expressed his desire to the pretext of the sinking of the battleship bans in leadership positions. at the University· of Pittsburgh, chaired by retUrn for a longer visit. · · Maine. M The United States th~h signed a Another problem, Adlum remaiiced, was Prof. Dennis Brutus. The meeting heard a Adlumdescribed thestridesCubaJtasmade peace treaty with Spain, granting Washington "underestimating the importance of political proclamation of welcome sent by Mayor in health care and education and in overcom­ vast powers over Cuba. and ideological work among the men and Sophie Masloff, as well as greetings from ing discrimination against Blacks and women . Following the treaty, Adlum stated, "peo­ women creating socialism." City Councilman Jake Milliones, UMWA since the victory of the revolution in 1959. ple from the United States descended on the To laughter and applause from the audi­ representative Michel, Gary Best of the "As a child," Adlum recalled, "I could not Cuban economy, took it over, and made it ence in the Zion Baptist Church, Adlum United Food and Commercial Workers have even dreamed of working in the local one-sided and dependent." remarlced that Cuban revolutionaries believe Union, and Eastern striker John Burlce. ''They bank in my hometown because of the color Under the rule of U.S.-backed regimes, profoundly in human beings. "We ·do not say de Klerlc is a new man, a changed man," of my skin. But today, because of the revo- which only ended with the overthrow of the think human beings have to be sinners!" Adlum noted that the minibrigades of vol­ unteers worlcing to build housing in Cuba help to "establis~ the type of solidarity that should Puerto Rican 'assassins,' or freedom fighters? motivate men and women in our society." While in Minnesota, Adlum met with St. BY JAMES HARRIS Some received prison terms of up to 400 for an independent Puerto Rico. Even though Paul Mayor James Scheibel, who expressed Mayor David Dinkins labeled as "assas­ years, although all had been released by 1979. they might have been released years earlier an interest in visiting Cuba. He also met with sins" three Puerto Rican independence fight­ While U.S. forces were crushing the re­ had they asked for clemency, all refused to Tom Trow of the Minnesota Cuba Project, ers flying to New Yorlc to welcome Nelson bellion on the island, two Puerto Ricans liv­ acknowledge U.S. government jurisdiction which has organized exchanges with Cuba Mandela. Who are these men and women? ing in New York, Oscar Collazo and Griselio over them. for more than a decade. Lolita Lebr6n, Irving Flores, and Rafael Torresola. carried out an armed attack on After their release they spoke at rallies The Cuban diplomat was interviewed by Cancel Miranda, along with Oscar Collazo Blair House, the temporary residence of Pres­ where thousands celebrated the victory. In two radio stations and was the guest at a labor and Andres Figueroa Cordero, are heroes of ident Harry Truman. Torresola was killed in Puerto Rico, for example, 7,000 people breakfast hosted by ftgures active in Minne­ the Puerto Rican independence struggle. the attack and Collazo severely wounded. turned out to welcome them home. sota Trade Unionists for Peace. They are Puerto Rican nationalists who Collazo was later sentenced to death. The served 25 years or more in prison for taking sentence was eventually commuted to life up arms against the colonial status Washing­ imprisonment. Mandela speeches just published ton imposes on the island. In 1954, after Congress passed legislation proclaiming Puerto Rico a "free, associated They were the longest-held political pris­ BY JAMES HARRIS ish apartheid' will be able to see and hear the state," Lebron, Cancel Miranda, Flores, and oners in the western herilisphere. In Septem­ NEW YORK - Pathfinder has an­ ANC leader for themselves. And they can ber 1979, as a concession to mounting world Figueroa Cordero protested the imposition of nounced the publication of a new pamphlet, read and study his ideas in this timely, inex­ this new form of colonial status on their public opinion against the length and condi­ Nelson Mandela Speeches I990: "Intensify pensive new collection." country by shooting up the U.S. House of tions of their imprisonment, four of the five the Struggle to Abolish Apartheid." The at­ Included in the selection is Mandela 's 1989 Representatives, wounding ftve members of were released from prison and granted un­ tractive 74-page pamphlet is the ftrst collec­ letter from prison to then South African Pres­ Congress. The four were sentenced to prison conditional executive clemency by President tion of Mandela's major speeches since the ident P.W. Botha; his speech to 80,000 anti­ terms ranging up to 50 years. James Carter. Cordero was released in 1978 ANC leader's release from prison in February. apartheid activists in London; his tribute to just before he died of cancer. In prison the five nationalists became sym­ The new compilation is "the best way to Angola and Cuba in Luanda, Angola. May The story of the five is bound up with the bols of Puerto Rican resistance to U.S. colo­ find out-in Nelson Mandela's own words 10; and his May 23 talk to South African struggle ofPuerto Rico for self-determination . nial rule. The movement for their release - how the African National Congress is business executives. In April 1950 U.S. Secretary of Defense gained wide support. worlcing to advance the struggle for a dem­ The collection also includes the ANC's Louis Johnson met with Puerto Rican Gov. By the 1970s both houses of the Puerto ocratic, nonracial South Africa," Pathfmder program, the Freedom Charter, as well as Muiioz Marin to make plans to destroy the Rican legislature, four ex-governors of the editorial director Steve Clark said. photos, maps, three pages of historical. and influence ofthe Nationalist Party, then a major island, and all political parties, as well as Pathfinder is the U.S. publisher of Nelson biographical notes, and a brief introduction political force on the island. This campaign numerous trade union, student, religious, and Mandela's book The Struggle Is My Life. written by Greg McCartan, a staff writer for was launched in October 1950 with the arrest civic organizations in Puerto Rico, demanded Described by the author as "my autobiogra­ the Militant. Five of the speeches in the of numerous proindependence activists. their freedom. The Movement of Non­ phy," the book is published in collaboration pamphlet have previously appeared in the Responding to these attacks, the Nationalist Aligned Countries called for their uncondi­ with the London-based International Defence Militant. Photographs were taken by Party launched a revolt on October 30 under tional release. and Aid Fund for Southern .Africa. Margrethe Siem, who accompanied Mc­ the leadership of Pedro Albizu Campos. On Aug. 15, 1979, the United Nations "Intensify the Struggle to Abolish Apart­ Cartan and Militant correspondent Rich Pal­ Fighting spread rapidly to all major cities Special Committee on Decolonization passed heid" is Pathfinder's "salute to Nelson ser on a reporting trip to South Africa in in Puerto Rico. For five days U.S. tanks, a Cuban-sponsored resolution also calling for Mandela's historic tour of North America," March and April. planes, and troops fought the rebels. Hun­ their release. Clade said. "With this visit, rilillions in the The pamphlet is available for $4 from dreds of Puerto Ricans were killed and thou­ During their long imprisonment none of United States who answer Mandela's inter­ Pathfinder, 410 West Street, New Yorlc, N.Y. sands arrested during and after the uprising. the nationalists ever wavered in their support national call to 'intensify the struggle to abol- 10014.

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Two have plus three months suspended. "It's a very pessimistic report." vey of 12 major airlines by the U.S. company still does business in South gone down in the past five years. Department of Transportation, Africa. In 1986, Coca-Cola "di­ 1be right to glimpse- Ivana Fun while it lasted-To ap­ vested" its busy bottling plants there, Nobigdeal-Thenuclearflasks Trump provided her parents in pease creditors, bavid Paul sold his but continues to provide them the that will be ferried from Germany Czechoslovakia a five-bedroom $7 tnillion yacht for $3 million. soft drink concentrate. to Britain will each contain as much house with a satellite dish on the Chairman of the busted Aorida radioactivity as the Hiroshima roof and a Porsche in the garage. thrift, CenTrust,Paulhadbilledmost He fooled us-"He doesn't bomb. One paper, The European, said it of the yacht's operating expenses to want people to understand how will give townspeople "a glimpse of the bank. It features silk wallpaper, Harry smart he really is." - Irving Fisher, Law 'n order, Israeli style­ what the U.S. dollar can do now that a marble fireplace, and $700 Ring building contractor and flunky for Three Israeli soldiers were con­ the Communists are gone." bedsheets. Donald Trump. victed of abusing a West Bank youth, 12. A lieutenant who Meanwhile, back at the ranch Morality, the bottom line­ strikebound Eastern Airlines had the British roulette? -British Nu­ bashed him in the head with his -Ina U.S. poll for the International "Some people say recording conver­ highest percentage of bags reported clear Fuels will reprocess spent nu­ steel helmet was given a five­ Association of Financial Planners, sations is immoral. But where's the lost, damaged, delayed, or pilfered. clear fuel from West Germany. month suspended sentence. A ser­ 86 percent agreed that in the 1990s immorality, whose rights are being That's in addition to fuel from Japan geant-major who kicked him was college education will be out of violated, when you're doing it to ANC: ''Coke Is Not It"- Sup­ and Italy, which arrives in special busted to sergeant and given five reach for a majority of the people. · protect your assets?"- Ex-cop porters here said the African Na­ double-hulled ships. The West Ger­ months suspended. A corporal And 69 percent saw the possibility Frank Jones, proprietor of New tional Congress rejected a Coca­ man fuel will traverse busy shipping who put out a cigarette on the of a deep or prolonged depression. Yorlc's Spy Shop, which features Cola offer to help finance Nelson lanes in freight ferries of a type that boy's body was busted to private, A gloomy fmancial planner said, hi-tech recording devices. 'Bosses, not owls, are the problem,' says socialist

The following is a statement by Robbie ber prices have remained stable for 10 years damage and take steps to reforest, a process Scherr, Socialist \\brkers Party candidate while log prices have soared. This profit that would create many jobs. for US. Congress in Wlshington State's squeeze is what has led to mounting mill The government forest services, which act 7th District, Seattle. closures. as agencies for the timber monopolies, cannot be trusted to defend wildlife, forests, and A battle over jobs, logging, and the envi­ Increased labor productivity recreation areas. The books of the corpora­ ronment is under way in the Pacific North­ The job losses had nothing to do with tions should be opened to public inspection west. Unionists, independent loggers, the spotted owl. They resulted from big so that worlcing people can examine the deal­ environmentalists, and others have been increases in productivity due to new equip­ ings of Weyerhaeuser, Boise-Cascade, Mac­ drawn into the debate. In their insatiable drive ment and forced speedup. Over 13,000 Millan-Bloedel, and the rest. for profits, the timber barons have stepped woodworlcers' jobs have been eliminated • Worlcing people should stand squarely up attacks on working people as they plunder in Oregon alone over the last decade. This opposed to a ban on log exports. This is a the environment. occurred during record production - 20 deadly trap. It diverts our fire from our real Their wanton destruction of natural re­ percent more lumber and 10 percent more enemies - the multinational corporations sources is not limited to the Pacific North­ plywood. - and divides us from our natural allies­ west, or even to North America. It is most In Canada membership in the International fellow worlcers around the world. brutal in Third World countries, like Brazil. Woodworlcers of America declined by 30,000 The North American capitalists have al­ There, in the vise grip of a massive debt to over the 1980s. Industry forecasters predict ready used the U.S.-Canada free trade agree­ banks in the imperialist countries, important more drastic job reductions. ment to pit Canadian and U.S. w.orlcers resources like the Amazon rain forest are Worlcing people should stand up to the against each other, even though we often being devastated. logging giants' blackmail by refusing to belong to the same international unions or Like others in North America, woodworlc­ choose between the right to a job and a clean, worlc for the same companies. ers have been fighting against concession enjoyable environment. We can protect old­ • We need to add our voices to the call contracts aimed at weakening their unions growth forests and defend our livelihoods at for cancellation of the Third World debt, to and eroding their health and safety. Theylve the same time. fight to end the plunder of the resources of identified. with and found inspiration in the those countries. militant struggle of Machinists against East­ • Worlcing men and women should ben­ emAirlines and in the victory of coal miners efit from productivity gains, not suffet longer. We must get out of the bosses • frameworlc hours or layoffs. Reduction of the workweek of blaming little birds or worlcing people in against the attempt by Pittston Coal to bust Militant/Angel Lariscy their union. throughout the country from 40 to 30 hours other countries for their crisis. Worlcing men without a cut in pay would open up hundreds and women in the United States, Canada, "Timber barons have attacked working Over the past few years, thousands of pulp, people and plundered environment," paper, and plywood workers have been of thousands of new jobs. Japan, and elsewhere should unite in placing the blame where it belongs - on the profit says Robbie Scherr, Socialist \\brke..S thrown out of worlc. More devastating unem­ • The practice of clear-cutting.should be Party candidate for US. Congress. ployment lies ahead as the bosses shut addi­ outlawed. We need planned logging at bio­ drive of the capitalists. tional mills. logically sustainable levels. The spotted owl Wmning these demands will require mobi­ Natural resources have also fallen victim should be protected with the full strength of lizing union power and building international out of this crisis. Worlcers around the world, to the timber monopolies and bankers. Mil­ the Endangered Species Act. solidarity to challenge the multinational cor­ united in a common fight and unrestrained lions of acres of timber land, owned by giant The standing forests on federal, state, pro­ porations and the capitalist governments that by chauvinism, can put an end to the cap­ corporations, banks, or insurance companies, vincial, and private lands should be invento­ back them up. italists' devastation of our livelihoods and the are bought and sold as a source of investment, ried so that we can judge the extent of the Unity is a prerequisite to finding a road environment. tax shelter, or speculation without regard to proper use management. These robber barons clear-cut forests, razing them and leaving little to regenerate. Nicaraguan land reform undermined Forests on public lands In the United States, timber companies Continued from Page 8 much the rulers will be able to accomplish times from peasants with arms. The degree have been cutting down trees in federal- and increasing the profitability of investment in remains an open question. of organization and consciousness of the state-owned forests at an alarming pace. Prior these areas, thus benefitting capitalist ranch­ Fanners have demonstrated that they will small fanners and their allies will determine to World War II, virtually no timber was cut ers and coffee growers in particular. fight to protect their conquests. Most attempts how fast and how far the government of from these public lands. Today, 50 percent of Concessions to capitalist fanners also in­ so far to return confiscated land to former capitalists and landlords can go in reversing the virgin forest that stood in Washington cluded some initial steps toward returning owners have encountered resistance, some- what the peasants have won since 1979. State's Olympic Peninsula in 1974 has been confiscated farms to capitalist ownership. In sawed down. In neighboring British Colum­ a few instances the government actually did bia's Carmanah Valley, not only jobs and the return land to former owners, although this environment, but Indian land and fishing process was still only in an early stage when -10AND25 YEARS AGO-- rights have fallen prey to these corporate the FSLN was voted out of office in February . thieves. of this year. These cases were seen as impor­ TH£ student revolt. Fearing that meetings to com­ Old-growth forest is an irreplaceable re­ tant, however, because they marlced the ac­ MILITANT memorate the June 16, 1976, uprising would source with unique plant and animal life. Its celerating reversal of direction. spark even greater defiance of the apartheid destruction severely despoils the ecosystem The erosion of the agrarian reform was June 27, 1980 rulers, the government banned all gatherings and causes massive soil erosion. also reflected in the decline of peasant mili­ In the bloodiest attack since the Soweto of more than 10 people. The timber bosses and capitalist politicians tias in the countryside. These units had been rebellion four years ago, South African riot Thousands of worlcers in the Cape Penin­ claim that the problems confronting logging decisive to the defense of state farms, collec­ police killed up to 60 Blacks and wounded sula did not go to worlc for a second day to and mill towns result from steps to protect tive farms, and cooperatives. 200 others in Cape Town June 17. mark the anniversary. the northern spotted owl. The impending U.S. Tear gas floated across the entire area Fish and Wildlife Service decision to list this Sale of land allowed throughout the night, as Black youth tied up bird on the endangered species list would A further blow to agrarian reform was the traffic, erected street barricades, and set THE require the government to ban logging in adoption March 30 of a law allowing the bonfires around the Elsie's River commu­ spotted owl habitat areas. unrestricted sale of land distributed to peas­ nity. The spotted owl is blamed for everything The protesters are from that section of the MILITANT ants under the agrarian reform, reversing one Published in the Interests of the Workinq People from massive unemployment and mill clo­ of the major conquests of the 1981 agrarian Black population classified by the govern­ June 28, 1965 .... ~ '"' sures to school cutbacks and the coming reform law. The measure was adopted by the ment as Coloured (of mixed ancestry). recession. But it's not the bird that causes FSLN-dominated National Assembly after The entire worlc force of 4.000 Black auto JUNE 23 -As we go to press, news re­ these problems. It is the worlcings of the the election but before Chamorro's govern­ worlcers closed down Volkswagen's plant in ports from Algeria remain unclear and inad­ capitalist system in deep crisis. ment took office in April, and was champi­ Uitenhage June 16 in a strike for higher equate. The average rate of profit in the wood oned by FSLN assembly members. wages. The Ford and General Motors plants The military coup led by Gen. Houari industry, like in industry in general, continues The capitalists and their government will are also shut down because of strikes by Boumedienne that overthrew the Ben Bella to decline. And wood mill owners, like other use this law, as well as Chamorro's subse­ parts workers. regime is obviously a political move of the industrialists, resist investing capital in the quent decrees, to move to undo what peasants The June 17 police assault came one day deepest significance for the Algerian people maintenance and upgrading of plants. Lum- have won over the past decade. But how after the fourth anniversary of the Soweto and the world socialist movement.

June 29, 1990 The Militant 13 -EDITORIALS------Imperialist intervention and Nelson Mandela's reception civil war in Korea BY DOUG JENNESS Angola in 1988. This blow was dealt by the combined At the beginning of this year the African National Con­ Shortly after the Korean War began on June 25, 1950, gress (ANC) was a banned organization in South Africa, forces of Cuba, Angola, the South West Africa People's the Militant carried a front-page letter addressed to Presi­ Organisation. It reversed Pretoria's expansionist course Nelson Mandela was still a prisoner of the apartheid re­ dent Harry Truman and members of Congress. Written by and led to the independence of Namibia. gime, and the state of emergency that had been in exis­ James P. Cannon, then the national secretary of the Socialist tence since 1986 was still in force. The reception given to Mandela is the result of these Workers Party in the United States, the letter declared, ''The In the United States, as recently as October 1986, Con­ historic changes in the relationship of forces inside South American intervention in Korea is a brutal imperialist in­ gress included in the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act Africa and the growing isolation of the apartheid regime vasion, no different from the French war on Indochina or . - which imposed some sanctions on trade with South internationally. It is not due to changes in Mandela's the Dutch assault on Indonesia." He called for the with­ Mrica-the charge that the ANC promotes "terrorism" views. drawal of U.S. troops and the right of the Korean people to · and engages in "unprovoked violence." It called for . Mandela emerged from prison a revolutionary, holding determine their own affairs. greater restrictions on ANC operations in the United the same perspectives he did 27 and a half years before The massive step-up of U.S. military forces in Korea States and pressed for an investigation of the organization when the prison doors closed behind him. His message is came· in response to the movement of troops from the by the U.S. attorney general for "actual and alleged viola­ the same: abolish apartheid, fight to implement the ANC Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north, cross- tions of the Foreign Agents Registration Act." The act program - the Freedom Charter- and keep struggling called upon Pretoria to legalize the ANC only if the ANC for a democratic, nonracial South Africa. would agree to "suspend terrorism," thus demanding that Like other mass revolutionary leaders of our time - the ANC proclaim itself guilty of terrorism. LEARNING ABOUT Malcolm X, Thomas Sankara, Ernesto Che Guevara, Scattered throughout the legislation are similar slan­ Fidel Castro, and Maurice Bishop- Mandela remains ders and charges against the ANC. uncompromising in the struggle against oppression. SOCIALISM Only three years ago, when ANC President Oliver Since his release he has taken the moral high ground Tambo was in the United States and met with Secretary of ing the 38th parallel into the southern part of Korea. The and pointed the way forward for that struggle. This has State George Shultz, Shultz was still publicly pressing the south was governed by the· tyrannical puppet regime of been essential in placing the South African regime and all State Department line that the ANC was a "terrorist" Syngman Rhee set up by U.S. military occupation forces organization controlled by Moscow. those with a stake in maintaining apartheid on the defen­ over the previous five years. sive. He was not alone. The big-business media, including President Truman called the movement of Korean troops the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, were Mandela has consistently met every challenge before from the north to the south a communist invasion. Cannon, churning out the same slanders. the revolutionary movement. He has taken the struggle to however, dido 't see this as an invasion. To the contrary, he the "homelands," where 50 percent of the Mrican masses explained, ''The explosion in Korea on June 25, as events • live in rural poverty. He has called for unity in Natal have proved, expressed the profound desire of the Koreans Today Nelson Mandela is free, the ANC has been un­ province, which has been the arena of considerable vio­ themselves to unify their country, to rid themselves of banned, and the state of emergency has been lifted in most lence, thereby undermining the support for Gatsha foreign domination, and to win their complete national of the country. Mandela is visiting many countries where Buthelezi and the lnkatha organization, who collaborate independence." hundreds of thousands have turned out to welcome him with the regime. And he is taking the fight to keep the Moreover, the SWP leader pointed out, the conflict in and hear him speak and tens of millions more have heard sanctions against the apartheid regime to the world. Korea is "more than a fight for unification and national and seen him on radio and television. In New York he was Mandela is leading the ANC to address, not just the liberation. It is a civil war. On the one side are the Korean met by a ticker-tape parade of 750,000 and given the key hundreds of thousands who are convinced, but the tens of workers, peasants, ahd student youth~ On the other are to the city. Even the Empire State Building has been lit up millions who have yet to be organized into the struggle Korean landlords, usurers, capitalists, and their police and in green, gold, and black - the ANC colors. and become active participants. The ANC is seeking to political agents. The impoverished and exploited working Moreover, the heads of state of the world's most pow­ win the leadership of the majority and organize a move­ masses have risen up to drive out the native parasites as erful countries are meeting with him. ment that speaks for it. well as their foreign protectors." This reception is the result of the momentous advances in political understanding and organization of a decades­ The message that Mandela has brought has been clear Cannon pointed out that as the Korean troops from the and unambiguous - maintain and strengthen the sanc­ long battle by the oppressed masses of South Africa. It is north swept through the south, the "people's committees" tions against South Mrica. The fight to maintain the sanc­ these gains that have placed the freedom struggle in South that had been set up in 1945 after Japan's surrender, but tions is the way that workers from all over the world can Africa at the center of revolutionary struggle today. then· destroyed by U.S. occupation forces, were reborn. As Mandela said at a rally of 125,000 in Soweto on solidarize with the fighting masses of South Africa. "The North Korean regime," he noted. "desiring to mobi­ February 13, "I have seeh with my own eyes the masses We are better able to conduct that fight today than at lize popular support, has decreed land reforms and taken of our people ... making history." any time in the past. The gains won in South Africa have nationalization measures in the territories it has won.... The masses of South Africa are carrying on a struggle opened up political opportunities for workers and farm­ These reforms, tl:\ese promises of a better economic and that cannot be ignored even by the longtime allies of the ers, not just in South Africa but all over the world. More social order have attracted the peasants and workers. This apartheid regime. Their fight has resulted in the under­ and more working people who are inspired by the struggle prospect of a new life is what has imbued a starving subject standing among workers, farmers, and all progressive­ recognize that a victory in South Africa will be a victory people with the will to fight to the death. This is the 'secret minded people the world over that apartheid is a crime for the oppressed worldwide. They are becoming part of weapon' that has wrested two-thirds of South Korea from against humanity and that it must be abolished. This un­ this fight, and as they do they are learning lessons from it U.S. imperialism and its native agents and withstood the derstanding by tens of millions has become a material that can be applied to their own struggles. A victory in troops and bombing fleets of mighty Wall Street." force in world politics. It is not easy for the world's South Africa will help revive and politicize the working­ The U.S. and its Korean puppet forces continued to governments to get away with appearing to support the class movement internationally. retreat until early August. Then, in a counterattack, the apartheid state, which is not only increasingly seen as an Now is the time for workers and farmers and all pro­ North Korean troops were driven back to the 38th parallel abomination, but is falling apart and is historically gressive-minded people to push forward in Qpposition to by the end of September. On September 30 U.S. and allied doomed. apartheid. We can press this fight in our unions, student forces fighting under the banner of the United Nations, A key turning point in the freedom struggle was the organizations, and community groups and become a part entered the north in a drive to smash the North Korean defeat of the South African army at Cuito Cuanavale in of the people who are making history. government and lay the basis for bringing the entire penin­ sula under imperialist domination. They advanced all the way to the Yalu River on the Korean-Chinese border. The war then took another tum as hundreds of thousands of battle-tested Chinese volunteers, who had just a year before won a revolutionary victory in their own country, joined with Korean troops to push the imperialist forces July 9 trial and Curtis' fight back to the 38th parallel. By the end of 1952, 1.2 million Chinese troops were engaged in the war. By the end of the Continued from front page up to and during the 1988 criminal trial. They tried to conflict in June 1953, some 900,000 Chinese volunteers ers bank on this to break the fighting spirit of workers and portray the defense campaign as an effort to victimize a had fallen in battle. erode solidarity from their families. Black working-<:lass family. The Workers League, an anti­ Action against Washington's aggression in Korea and The aim is the same in Curtis' situation - to break his labor outfit that claims to be socialist, has all along acted countering -its economic blockade and military threats will to fight and to drive a wedge between him and his wife, as a mouthpiece for the cops and prosecutor, and has against China led to a deepening of the Chinese revolution. who has been his foremost defender. aggressively peddled their line internationally. They re­ During the war the pace of the agrarian reform was speeded Kaku is very much a target in this legal action. She has cently published a slickly packaged 250-page book, The up, capitalist ownership of basic production was elimi­ been an effective representative and spokesperson for the Mark Curtis Hoax, to step up the smear job. nated, and a monopoly of foreign trade was established. Mark Curtis Defense Committee. Her recent tours to Eu­ The cops, county prosecutor, state attorney general, and On numerous occasions the U.S. ruling circles consid­ rope and Canada have netted impressive new support in her Workers League all hope the lawsuit against Curtis will ered using atomic bombs against North Korea and China. husband's fight for justice. the forces who want to keep breathe new life into this lie and undermine the interna­ But this was rejected. Curtis locked up would like to demoralize and shut her up. tional defense campaign. U.S. saturation bombing of northern cities, factories, and A large fmancial judgment against Curtis also penalizes The. fight for justice for Mark Curtis now needs to be mines was devastating. From early November 1950 until him a second time for a crime he did not commit. He is stepped up in a big way. All supporters need to be con­ the end of the war, the policy was to create a wasteland in already serving a 25-year jail term for the 1988 conviction. tacted. the stakes in this new stage of his fight need to be the north. Napalm was used extensively on civilian centers. This double jeopardy reveals the class bias ofthe capitalist explained, and backing needs to be rallied in a campaign On Aug.-29, 1952, for example, 697 tons of bombs and justice system in which workers may never stop being up to, during, and immediately after the trial. 10,000 liters of napalm were dropped on Pyongyang, the penalized once they are caught in its web. Urgently needed funds have to be raised. Potential con­ north's largest city. The lawsuit has another purpose as well. tributors and contributing organizations need to be ap­ The estimated deaths were 4 million in a nation that had The Des Moines cops and Polk County prosecutor who proached for large financial donations to cover legal and 30 million people in 1950. This included 2 million North put Curtis behind bars, and the Iowa attorney general who publicity expenses. Korean civilians, 500,000 North Korean troops, and 1 is challenging his Supreme Court appeal, are not winning New supporters need to be signed up. Defense commit­ million South Korean civilians. Some 5.7 million U.S. the battle for international public opinion. Tens of thou­ tee literature needs to be distributed at political events, soldiers were engaged in the three-year conflict and 54,000 sands have extended support to Curtis' fight and more than union meetings, on the shop floor - anywhere new sup­ were killed. 8,000 trade unionists, defenders of democratic rights, polit­ port can be enlisted. Public meetings should be held. Vol­ The war resulted in a stalemate with the Korean people ical activists, government figures, and others from several unteers are needed to help in the defense committee office remaining divided into two states with sharply conflicting continents have endorsed the efforts of the defense com­ in Des Moines. social systems. This was a sharp blow to the U.S. imperi­ mittee. The lawsuit against Curtis poses a big challenge to his alist rulers' attempt to restore capitalism in North Korea and To undermine this growing support. the cops and prose­ supporters in the United States and around the world. This to their previous position of always being undisputed vic­ cutor attempted to smear Curtis and his supporters leading attack can be turned back and wider support can be won. tors in their wars.

14 The Militant June 29, 1990 'Break of Dawn' story about a fight for justice

BY MARK CURTIS lads he had written. Coworlc:ers recognized his talent and man was bullied by police into fingering him. FORT MADISON, Iowa- Break ofDawn, a film about urged him to try his luck at the local radio station, so he An all-white jury found Gonzalez guilty. He was sentenced the life of Pedro Gonzalez, was shown on Iowa Public went for auditions. "In Spanish? No, we can't use it," the to50yeaisinCalifornia'sSanQuentinprison.Allhisappeals Television last month while I was incarcerated at the state station manager told Gonzalez. · were denied. Two years later the young woman admitted that prison in Anamosa. Refusing to accept this rejection, Gonzalez convinced the Gonzalez had not committed the crime and that police had I saw the movie together with other inmates, including manager to hire him to read ads in Spanish. One day he took pressured her to make the accusation. But the judge refused a young Mexican who used to worlc: at the same meat-pack­ a chance and sang a song in Spanish on the air. He was fired, to release him, claiming that the time limit for appeals had ing plant in Des Moines as I did. My friend's first comment but calls from many people in the Mexican community who passed. wanted to hear more of his music swamped the station. Despite brutal treatment in jail, time in solitary confine­ He was rehired and began to broadcast his own program ment in the "hole," and offers to release him if he admitted called "Los Madrugadores" (The Early Risers) between four the crime, Gonzalez refused to be broken. The film covers BEHIND and six in the morning. The audience was mexicanos and little of his time in jail. But those who see it will not be Chicanos getting ready to go to worlc: in the fields and surprised to hear that he was nicknamed "The Defender" PRISON factories. His style and beautiful music made the program by other prisoners because he stood up for their rights. He very popular. organized 5,000 prisoners in the first hunger strike ever at WALLS During the Great Depression of the 1930s, tens of millions San Quentin. It was successful and the hated prison director of worlc:ers lost their jobs, and millions of farmers lost their was replaced. · land. Cuts in wages, longer hours, and worse conditions Maria Salcido took over her husband's air time at the was, ''That movie was exactly like what happened to you, faced those who continued to worlc:. This situation forced radio station. She, along with many of his friends and Marcos." working people to fight back. Union8 were organized. supporters, launched the Pedro Gonzalez Defense Commit­ Break ofDawn is an inspiring story about worlc:ing people Strikes were called. Unemployed leagues were set up. And tee, which spread throughout the Southwest. The movie who stand up to fight against injustice and win. the government and employers attempted to break these shows her speaking to people about the frame-up, collecting Gonzalez was born and raised in the northern Mexican struggles by using the police, courts, and National Guard. signatures, and raising funds. The defense committee col­ state of Chihuahua. He began worlc:ing as a telegraph oper­ lected 300,000 signatures on a petition to the governor of ator for the railroad as a young man. But something bigger Racist campaigns scapegoating immigrant worlc:ers were launched to keep working people divided. Nearly 500,000 California calling for Gonzalez's release. Two ex-presidents than the railroad changed his life forever. During the Mex­ of Mexico and the Mexican counsel to the United States ican revolution that began in 1910 millions of people, mostly Mexican worlc:ers were picked up and deported by the U.S. government. also endorsed the efforts of this international campaign. peasants, fought for the right to the land they worlc:ed and "Looks like you and him are in the same boat, Marlc:," In Los Angeles Kyle Mitchell, the district attorney, called to defend their country's sovereignty against the United said one of my cellmates, who was also watching the movie. for more deportations and fanned racial.hatred by blaming States. The government was finally forced to release·Gonzalez Spanish-speaking worlc:ers for unemployment and "stealing Gonzalez joined Francisco "Pancho" Villa's revolution­ after he served six years in prison. Although he had "papers" American jobs." Gonzalez knew Mitchell. He had run ary army and became Villa's personal telegrapher. He was allowing him to live in the United States, he was deported, campaign advertisements on his program for the district nearly executed after his capture by those fighting against a practice which is still common today. In 1972 Gonzalez attorney. Mitchell had been elected by the "big tum out Villa. As he stood on the firing line, a group of young women and Salcido were permitted to return to the United States. from the East Side," which still is predominantly mexicano dashed out between the rifles of the firing squad and Although the U.S. government granted Gonzalez citizen­ and Chicano. Gonzalez. They delayed the shooting long enough for a call ship, they remain committed to maintaining his frame-up. to be made to the governor, who halted the execution. When Gonzalez spoke out against deportations, he In 1985 his last appeal for a formal pardon was denied on Cuca Ochoa, a school teacher, organized the rescue. At quickly became an enemy of Mitchell. The film shows the excuse that the woman who had falsely accused him a party some years later Gonzalez met Ochoa and her unions with many immigrant members rallying against recanted too late and only in the presence of the Mexican daughter Maria Salcido, who was among the young women deportations and one rally being raided by police. Gonzalez counsel. who had saved his life. Three months later Gonzalez and called the raids racist. "This is our home, we have a right Break ofDawn is a movie that belongs to worlc:ing people Salcido were married in El Paso, Texas. to be here," he said. everywhere and deserves to be seen. The couple moved to Los Angeles in the 1920s. Break This angered the district attorney, who ordered his stooge ' of Dawn begins the story here. Living with relatives, Hector Rodriguez to get Gonzalez out of the way. After Mark Curtis is currently an inmate at the John Bennett Gonzalez got a job worlc:ing as a longshoreman on the docks arresting him several times on minor charges that were later Correctional Center in Fort Madison, Iowa. He is serving in Wilmington, California. dropped, the cops cooked up a serious frame-up against a 25-year jail term on a frame-up rape and burglary While loading and unloading ships, Gonzalez sang bal- Gonzalez. A young woman who had been raped by another conviction.

-LETTERS GlOG~P'1Y lf5SON Boycott of Koreans of poor people, the writer should Each evening I listen to New have addressed that issue. Yorlc:--based Black talk radio. There­ How much do the Koreans con­ fore, I think I may know more about tribute back to the community the Korean boycott than this Mc­ where they earn their profits? Why Cann person [Militant staff writer is it possible for folks to get off the Roni McCann]. plane one day and enjoy more ben­ If the woman who was brutalized efits than those who spent most of were white, the merchants would their lives in the trenches? have been hung from the nearest Montsho Rakeletso . tree. But since the victim was Black, Omaha, Nebraska the people of Flatbush should scratch their heads, shuffle their feet, Tiananmen Square and pray it never happens again. June 4 marlc:ed the first anniver­ Jews, Koreans, and others who sary of the massacre of peaceful make their living in Black neighbor­ demonstrators by Chinese govern­ hoods should respect our people. If ment troops at Tiananmen Square. they choose not to, it is our duty to Worldwide demonstrations were put them out of business. held to protest the killings and de­ We will no longer allow benevo­ mand democratic rights in China. lent whites to tell us what is in our In Vancouver, British Columbia, best interest. The only solution to 300 Chinese refugees gathered June our economic situation is to support 2 at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen park to demand Black businesses, build our own in­ a memorial plaque be installed there stitutions, and separate ourselves in memory of those who were killed. from the enemy of our people. Funds have been raised for the A reader plaque, but the Chinese embassy has Kansas City, Missouri pressured local authorities not to I remember several international developments in Eastern Europe. approximately 40 million or more allow its addition to the parlc:. unions taking a no-strike pledge A prisoner Americans who don't have insur­ A few comments On June 3, some 150 marched in during World War II. I don't doubt Canakkale, Turkey ance or the money "up front''? I I recently subscribed to the Mili­ pouring rain through Seattle's Inter­ but that Bridges did it also. I oppose suppose that many of them suffer tant. I would like to share a few national District to protest the deaths any no-strike clause in any union Medical care and die in this land of plenty. comments and obtain feedback re­ and arrests a year ago. contract anywhere on this planet. Having suffered from a chronic garding the scope of the paper. Both events were sponsored by With a no-strike clause, a contract lung disease for two years, I was Those millions are no less human First, I noticed the section of let­ coalitions of Chinese student, cul­ is not worth the paper it is written told by my physician that I would than I am or than the trade unionist ters to the editor was quite small. tural, and political groups. The Se­ on and has no leverage. need to see specialists for further who has insurance. We need a na­ Would you consider increasing the attle event was also sponsored and , Grady Vandiver treatment. I was given the name tional health plan that provides free section to a full page? led by Amnesty International. Rialto, California of an associate specialist physi- medical attention to everyone. It With 8,414 new readers, maybe Sue Kawakubo cian. When I called to make an would be the human thing to do in the paper can afford to increase the Seattle, Washington From a Thrkish prison appointment, I was told that I· , this country, which is becoming less editorial section. Do you allow guest I would like to have your news­ could be "worked in" at the end human all the time. editorials? No-strike clauses paper, the Militant. I'm a political of September. It was mid-May I enjoy reading progressive po­ I want to thank Della Rossa (let­ prisoner and journalist. I was editor­ when I called. John-Michael Eggertsen sitions, however, some of the dog­ ter, Militant June 1) for lifting me in-chief of a weekly socialist paper. I picked a second clinic from the Salt Lake City, Utah mas of yesteryear should be out of my old-age slumber and di­ After I was arrested, I was sentenced phone book and was told I could get avoided. One major source for gression in regard to the letter I to 36 years because of my thoughts an appointment within a week, but books I have purchased are re­ wrote about Harry Bridges (Militant and articles. I have been in jail 11 I would need $200 "up front" and The letters column is an open views by folks familiar with pro­ May4). years. an insurance card to get treatment. forum for all viewpoints on sub­ gressive struggles. My choice of words was handed As a journalist my possibilities Without insurance I would have to jects of general interest to our The news analysis by Roni Mc­ down to me by others. I shouldn't are rather restricted in prison. I pay the entire bill at the time of my readers. Please keep your letters Cann on the Korean boycott missed have praised him as a great leader, speak English and French. So I want appointment. brief. Where necessary they will the major issue of that conflict. In a because he headed a union that for you to send me your paper. Thank Fortunately, I have the $200 and be abridged. Please indicate ifyou system where one makes an inordi­ the most part was run by the worlc:­ you. an insurance card, and I can get · prefer that your initials be used nate amount of profits off the backs ers. I also need books on the latest treatment. But what happens to the rather than your full name. June 29, 1990 The .Militant TH£ MILITANT Socialists back language rights Minnesota candidate speaks to farm workers

BY BRUCE CAMPBELL work on the com and bean harvest. Many One county commissioner said a letter should AUSTIN, Minn.-''The working class in come to the northwest part of the state to be sent to Texas telling people not to come Minnesota and Iowa is changing rapidly. It work in the sugar-beet fields. Growing num­ here since there are no jobs. Another sug­ is more multinational: More Latinos, more bers are taking up permanent residence, often gested that people were coming to enjoy "the Southeast Asians, and more Blacks are mov­ going to worlc in meat-packing plants or good life" on welfare. ing here. This is good," declared Wendy canneries. In response, a fight has developed in the Lyons, Socialist Worlcers Party candidate for 1be camps for migrant worlcers are over­ town to reverse the decision. The Community Minnesota governor. crowded and unsanitary. Most have no water Equality Action Committee is speaking up ''The bosses talk about so-called illegal for drinking or cooking. This year the worlc for the righ~ of Spanish-speaking workers aliens," she said. "But we're all the same to has been slow. The situation is made more and publicizing the conditions in the migrant them." Lyons was speaking to an audience desperate by recent layoffs of more than labor camps. of 50 people, including more than a dozen 1,200 worlcers at Farmstead Foods in nearby In a statement in both English and Spanish, migrant farm workers, attending a campaign­ Albert Lea. Many worlcers are forced to seek Lyons explained where the party's Action sponsored hog roast at a farm near here. government aid. Program to Confront the Coming Economic For decades, migrant worlcers have come Despite this need, the Albert Lea Victims' Crisis fits into this fight. to Minnesota in the spring to cut asparagus, Crisis Center was denied funds to hire a "As a result of battles like that of the pick rocks and weeds in the fields, and then Spanish translator for the summer months. Machinists union against Eastern Airlines and the meat-packers here in Austin against Hormel, more working people see the need for unity," the socialist candidate said. \\endy Lyons 'No to Alabama English-only law' Working people "need measures to make up for the discrimination that is built into the BY DAVE PAPARELLO female, English-, Spanish-, or whatever lan­ profit system," she said "We should support ''The Third World debt should be can­ BIRMINGHAM, Ala.- A referendum to guage-speaking- has been the key to their affirmative action programs that give prefer­ celed," she said. ''The terrible devastation establish English as the "official" language success so far. ence to minorities and women." created by this debt has forced millions to of the state of Alabama was overwhelmingly "Worlcing people need to fight for full ''The problem of unemployment," Lyons seek work elsewhere or starve." approved by voters in early June. democratic rights for immigrant worlcers - stated, "cannot be solved by trying to keep As the worldwide crisis of the capitalist ''This amendment is an attack on demo­ .bilingual education, the right to programs, some groups out. And the worlcweek must be system worsens, "we need to rebuild the labor cratic rights," declared Sue Skinner, the So­ documents, forms, and information in their shortened with no cut in take-home pay" to movement around the old adage 'United we cialist Workers Party candidate for governor. own languages," Skinner said. provide "jobs for all." stand, divided we fall."' "It aims to deepen the divisions among worlc­ ing people and legalize discrimination on the basis of what language·you know best. This weakens the democratic rights of all of us." Quebec: 'School board plan targets immigrants' The amendment states, "'The Legislature shall make no law which diminishes or ig­ nist League candidate for mayor, blasted the heart of this country's current political crisis. nores the role of English as the common Montreal Catholic School Board's proposal In the context of the. attacks on French­ language of the state." Little discussion of to ban the use of any language other than speakers' rights, many nationalist organiza­ the amendment or opposition to it preceded French on the premises of its French-lan­ tions, as well as much of Quebec's the voting. It was promoted by the Alabama guage schools. The plan calls for the use of capitalist-owned French-language media, English Committee, which argued that the disciplinary measures and would apply in support the school board's proposal. new law would cut goyemment spending. classes; corridors, during extracurricular ac­ But the plan's openly anti-immigrant char­ Committee director Tom Doron was tivities, and in private conversations. acter has drawn widespread opposition, es­ quoted in an article in the Birmingham Post­ The Catholic board's proposed ban primar~ pecially from working people and from Herald, as pointing to the Canadian govern­ ily taJgets immigrant students whose frrst students. ment as an example of the kind of problems language is not French. The Quebec Teachers' Federation, for ex­ that can arise. He claimed millions of dollars "Your proposal is totally reactionary, divi­ ample, opposes the ban. A longtime defender are spent in Canada to prepare documents in sive, and undemocratic," Dugre, a Montreal ofthe riational rights ofQuebec, the federation both English and French. steelworlcer said, "No school board, no gov­ favors further promotion of French by The use of many languages "is' the most ernment, no boss has the right to tell anyone strengthening Law 101, not by banning other serious threat to our riationhood at this time what language they must speak to their fellow languages. The proposed language ban comes in our history," said Georgie Anne Geyer, a students, coworlcers, or anyone else." a year after the Quebec government adopted columnist for the Universal Press Syndicate, Quebec's school system is organized along Law 178, which banned the use of languages speaking before the Rotary Club here. separate religious and language lines. The other than French on exterior store signs. Skinner, who called for a no vote on the Catholic schools are largely French and the 1be latest language ban is part of an effort referendum, explained, ''The English-only Protestant schools largely English. Previous by procapitalist forces in Quebec, including amendment is an attack on working-class attempts to modify the confessional.character 'Michel Dugre in the riationalist movement, to blame immi­ unity just when more and more working of the Quebec school system have been de­ grants for the continuing oppression of the people see the need to stick together." clared unconstitutional by Canada's courts. Quebecois. This drive has gone hand in hand, The SWPcandidate pointed to the example BY GARY WATSON The Catholic school board claims it is pointed out, with the racist claim of ofthe Eastern and Greyhound strikers. "Unity MONTREAL-At public hearings here acting to defend the rights of Quebecois. Dugre an Canada's capitalist rulers that immigrant among strikers -white and Black, male and May 31 and June 1 Michel Dugre, Commu- But, as pointed out to board members, Dugre worlcers threaten the jobs of Canadian-born the divided school system is "archaic and workers. reactionary." ''That system, reinforced by your language "Immigrants are not responsible in any N. Carolina socialist protests ban, will only deepen the linguistic and na­ way for any of the problems faced by tional divisions among working people in this Quebecois," the communist candidate told country," Dugre added, "It thus will under­ the hearing. "National oppression is a product censorship of Ohio art show mine rather than strengthen the fight against of capitalism, not of immigration. It is the the national oppression of Quebecois." capitalist system of exploitation and oppres­ GREENSBORO, N.C.-Socialistcandi­ backs in federal programs the socialist said. French-speaking people in Canada receive sion that is responsible for the oppression of date Rich Stuart-sent a message of solidarity "And they take land from farmers who could lower wages, have poorer health and educa­ Quebecois and immigrants alike, as well as Blacks and Native Indians. · to Dennis Barrie, director of the Contempo­ feed the hungry. tion facilities, and have a higher mortality rate rary Arts Center in Cincinnati. Barrie and the ''The worlcing people of North Carolina than English-speakers. The Quebecois con­ "It's only by uniting all the victims of the arts center, where 17 5 photographs by Robert know well that this great 'concern' for our stitute the largest·French-speaking commu­ bosses' profit system in the fight against every Mapplethorpe are on exhibit, were indicted well-being has led to our having among the nity in the country and represent 80 percent form of discrimination and oppression that April 7 on obscenity charges. highest infant mortality rate, worst educa­ of the population of the province of Quebec. our common enemy can be defeated That's ''This blatant attack on freedom of expres­ tional system, and lowest wage and union­ In 1977 the Quebec government adopted why I'm campaigning to win working people sion by the courts and self-appointed morality ization rates in the country," Stuart said. Law 101, affirmative action legislation de­ to the fight to scrap the school board's racist crusaders, including Sen. Jesse Helms of ''These thought controllers aim to shackle the signed to help overcome this systematic dis­ proposal." North Carolina, drips with hypocrisy," Stuart minds, mouths, and hands of any who would crimination. Since its adoption, however, Dugre pledged his full support to the pre­ wrote in his June 14 message. He is running dare to think, discuss, and act against their Canada's rulers have waged a campaign dominantly immigrant students at St-Luc's for U.S. Senate against Republican incum­ deteriorating conditions of life. claiming that it violates the rights ofQuebec's School in Montreal whose response to the ban bent Helms and Democratic Party candidate "Whether it be rap musicians, artists, union English-speaking minority. has been "Yes to French! No to sanctions!" Harvey Gantt. organizers, or those seeking to travel freely The Supreme Court has ruled that several He also called for the abolition of the "It is these same forces that would con­ to Cuba, all defenders of political, artistic, aspects of Law 101 were in violation of confessional school system. "We need one demn women to back-alley abortionists, arm and civil liberties must stand united against Canada's 1982 constitution. The massive op­ single public system that has French as the the death squads in El Salvador, and offer the censors. The attack on you as an individ­ position of Quebecois to the constitution, common language but in which all other their services to the racist apartheid rulers of ual opens the door to attacks on millions," partly on the grounds that it denies the Quebec major languages are taught and freely spoken. South Africa. Their morality would take food Stuart said in closing. "An injury to one is an government the full powers needed to defend Anything else is profoundly undemocratic out of the mouths of infants," through cut- injury to all." the rights of those who speak French, is at the and divisive."

16 The Militant June 29, 1990