Compromise headed off a battle The heart of the compromise The action also satisfied those and an opponent of the San~--- forthesocial, economicand r4 at the AFL-CIO convention be- was addition of a reference to who were prepared to do battle to dinistas, said the rresolution left a cal justice that the people of 1l tween the delegates who favored Nicaragua in a - paragraph -that prevent a condemnation of the union free to eitherr support or op- agua and El Salvador deserve.'; military support of the Contras in o-riginal ly declared that a Contras. pose aid to the Cot ntras. ~President Kenneth T. Blayirk- Nicaragua and those who sought negotiated settlement, rather than Gerald'F. McEntee, president of The operative s(entences in -the of the ' condemnation of the U.S.-backed American Feder-ati(,-, military victory, holds -the best the American Federation of State, resolution state: Employees took -the rebels fighting to overthrow the hope for El Salvador. County and Municipal Employees, "Unfortunately, thetheReaaneaga Ad-floord-Governmentto argue against the Contras. Sandinista government. By extending- thi's to Nicaragua, -and a leader of the anti-Contra Na- ministration contintues to plac'e em- like others on But even the issue no Blayloczk, th.- though the. resolutions committee was able tional Labor Committee, said after phasis on militarr rathrtan pli-tional Labor Committee, had Li., longer was in serious doubt, nearly to satisfy the considerable bloc of the -debate that the compromise tical solution to t] eled to Central America to se two hours of spirited debate pro- unions whose delegates wanted- a meant that the AFIL-CIO was not Nicaragua and El 1SalvadonflctSalvdor. inThThe himself the co-nditions there. vided the most dramatic moments statement condemning the Contras supporting Reagan Administration resolution continue'- of the convention before the com- and were determined not to accept policies i-n Cent'ral America. "But the AFL-C] IObliees h t Some who argued against WFiv- promise foreign policy resolution AFL-CIO backing for the anti- Albert Shanker, president of the negotiated settlemcint rather than America, although their trips were was accepted overwhelmingly. Sandinista fighters. American Federation of Teachers military victory holiId the best hope (Continued on Page 4)

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President Lane Kirkland. ac- George Meany and Lane Kirkland. cepted the gave] from secretary- "We're proud of California," treasurer Mary Yunt of t-he Orange Henning said, "Sbut today, brothers County Central Labolr Council and sisters, we're even.more proud Monday morning and called upon of the AFL-CIO and what it has the delegates to the 16th biennial done for the working people of AFL-CIC) Constitutional Conven- America." tion to be "open. and receptive to William F. Robertson, executive newv ideas. secretary-treasurer' of .-the- Los As the conventio'n opened min- Angeles CountFdti"on-o u s s -cw 1c UV wm tw rs*as ss * ** n *n Hotel, Archbishop Roger Mahony man of the'Orang'e' County Board of Los Angeles prefaced his of Supervisors,' were introduced invocation with a plea for support before Yunt -told the delegates that of the United Farm Workers. the opportunity .to host the AFL- Mahony, once a member of the CIO convention came at "an im- state Agricultural Labor Relations portant time for labor in Ora'nge Board, displayed a story in the County."9I California AFL-CIO News to il- She said: lustrate the UFW's troubles with "We have felt the effects of an the ALRB under the administration anti-union administration and an of Gov. George Deukmejian. anti-union community perhaps as Yunt introduced Anaheim strongly as anywhere in the United Mary Yunt turns convention gavel over to Lane I Mayor Don Roth and then John F. States . .. But we have used ad- Henning, executive secretary- verse times to improve our self-analysis and internal discus- treasurer of the California Labor methods and our organization. We sion. And in the 'next few days Convntio Demnd Federation. have become involved in com- delegates to this convention will Henning, reminding the dele- munity affairs and gained public consider a variety of well-re- Hat oTrdeDfii gates that California "came onto respect. We're stronger now than searched proposals that introduce the stage of history long before ever before, and poised to try new innovative methods for organizing Plymouth Rock," noted that AFL, approaches to today's challenges. and foir direct action. National A resolution declaring that the export ofjobs abroad. CIO or AFL-CIO conventions had "The AFL-CIO also has used polls show that public opinion once U.S. foreign trade policy must Albi'n J. Gruhn; president of the been brought to the state by the pressure of an adverse ad- again is in favor of labor unionls, promote-and not undermine-the Californlia Labor Federation, Presidents Samuel Gompers, ministration and an adverse public and this new public respect will nation's manufacturing, agricultur- decried the consumerism argu- William Green, Walter Reuther, to grow stronger. There has been (Continued on Page 3) al and maritime industries was the ments that the Reagan Administra- first order of business this week tion has advanced in defense of its as AFL-CIO convention delegates trade policies. 4 Join Eveuie oni began voting on polic'y statements "Reagan has been romancing at Anaheim. consumers of this nation with his "No nation can of free trade and the notion Association as well sustain in- myth Gene Upshaw, president of the League Players definitely the massive deficits now that it brings lower-priced mer- Federation of Professional as president of the Fvederation of " Gruhn said. Professional Athletes. confronting the United States, thie chandise," Athletes and formerly a player for said in a statement He the then-Oakland is one Upshaw was NFLPA player delegates called delegates' attention to Raiders, without. dissent. a recent that showed one of four persons elected as AFL- representative on the Oakeland adopted survey CIO vice presidents and given Raiders, for whom he played 16 They delcared that the United company sold for the same price seasons. He was named an States alone among the nations shirts made in the U.S. at union seats on the Executive Council all-pro and abroad at rates during the convention at Anaheim. lneman In nine seasons. tf'exposes its industrial foundation wages hourly President Lane Kirkland and The new vice presidents will to unl imited erosion from ranging from 19 cents to $1.25 an Secretary-Treasurer Thomas R. take the Executive Council seats of imports." They called for im- hour. Donahue were re-elected by ac- four who resigned from the Ex- mediate steps to "reverse the "Importers and retailers who clamation, as were 29 incumbent ecutive Council upon retiring as. disastrous decline" in thie-balance oppose fair-trade legislation are vice presidents. presidents of their unions. of trade. making enormous profits,'' Gruhn The new vice are: Those who down are added. presidents stepped A parade of delegates took the American or * Larry Dugan Jr., 55, president John H. Lyons, former president floor to speak for the resolution, .",Buy union, buy of the Iron J.C. the next lost job may be your of the C)perating Engineers, who Workers; Turner, many of them presidents of unions he concluded. began as a local officer in Phoenix. Dugan's predecessor as president hit by unemplovment because of own," ,* Robert A. Georgine, 53, head ofthe Operating Engineers; Robert Five AFL-CIO vice presidents G. of the told how the foreign trade deficit of the AFL-CIO Building and Goss Oil, Chemical and The on Construction Trades Department Atomic Workers, and Kenneth J. report the 16th has hurt their unions: James E. and former president of the Brown of the Graphic Communi- biennial Constitutional Hatfield of the Glass and Pottery cations Union. Convention of the AFL- Workers, Morton Bahr of the Lathers Union, which has merged Gene UJpshaw CIO will be continued Communications WoDrkers, Lynn with the Carpenters. The 35-member Executive in next * Milan Stone, 58, of steward in Wisconsin. Committee comprises the week's issue of R. Williams of thie-Steel Workers, president presi- the California AFL-CIO Owen Bieber ofthe Auto Workers, the United Rubber Workers, * U]pshaw, 40, who is executive dent, secretary-treasurer and 33 News. whose first union office was shop director of the National Football vice presidents. (Continued on Page 4) -~~~~~~ I i-##W

Wage discr'imination based up'-n-~ denlt of- the Mexican-American par.able wort judgment for Wash- *The refusal of Contra Costa -Sweeney, said: sex and race was the target as Ugal Defense Fund;. Benjamin ing'ton State workers represented County to. ordera. thorou-gh. in- ,- --:-. unions, women's and-icivil rights Hooks, execu.tive director of the -by AFSCME -and the union's vestigation of te.sex-based w'ag"e -h eod,certa .groups and clergy jo'ined in a noon Nationa Assoc6atio'n for thie Ad- -determi"nation to pursue thie case. discrimination thiat the count:d4U°rain/n protest' at Pershing Square in vancement of Colored People;' *A Federal judge's that ruling board has accepted as -a ftiaet,; -o wokr.. sur eo downtown Los Angeles. Eleanor Smeal,. president of the .reaffinned the right of the SEIU to despite demands- from -SEIU,- Ofis.a seX.icm John- J. Sweensey, pr'esident- of National Organization of Women; continue with its comparable worth AFSCME'and Calorii.uNorses4: .ageF+pb the Ser'vice Employees Internat'ion- and Sweeney,-who came directly suit on behalf of some- 70,000 pre-- who this week held 'Mmi ue tiiitl. QPltlsadofeass.mities and- ohe al IJnion, declared:: from te AFL-CIO convention at sent and past female members of protest ;'in the' supervisortms'ie "OLur message will malce it very' Anaheim. the Califomisa State Employees cham'bers. clear that pay is the demand Tom and "in .1 ,i01 Anvidpt nnI htv equity Mayor Bradley spoke, Associain despt exastive -studie"s con- not -only of women, not only 'of so did Southern California * Efforts by three SEIU locals *Overrding .by the San, F.ran- blacks, Hlispanics and other leaders. cisco supervisors of mayor's ducted by'SEIU dltt reve"a'l'sex and religious .representing 50,000 employees of race -discrimination- s minorities, not only of labor, but Speakers cited such recent thie of Los Angeles to- get vetoes of c'omparable worth. pe.rvasive, of all of us.' County "down payment" 'i'ses for female- tX' conservative majority' of te developments as: the Boaid of Supervisors to accept boardobf this National leaders taking part -in- The oveffuling in the Ninth :and act upon studies showing sex- and minorityr workers represented s'upervisors'ig"nor's cluded Antonia Hernandez, presi- Circuit Court of Appeals of a com- based wage discrimination. by SEIU. 'inj'ustic'e'. Strikers Corner~~~~~~~~~No for Farmer John :-, North State~~~~~~~~ FormPy

Musc Mrke Trade unionists-might be dis- posed to welcome the formation of I I Symphony concerts by striking Monday, Nov. 18, in the atrium of Californians'for Fair Employment. or locked-out uniion- musicians the Bateson Buil-ding. Espeially since the n'ew organ- have becomie a featur'e of of the orchestra. ization's p'u'rpo"se will' be to "im- princ-ipal Leading-players prove public awareness of pay thie Northem California cultural will fontn themselve.s into groups non-discrimination, scene this fall. including -a -brass quin.tet, wood- equity,. job. * The Sacramento Symphony, wind quintet and. string,,quartet. mobility -and fair employment -locked out since Sept. I, wili hold RefresluXents will -bq rvd -practices.." the third in its "Celebration of But lo'ok again: Califo}nians for for the- aud'ience, whichiwill lisien- is a Music" series of concerts on Mon- to the music ~from several -levels. Fair Em'ploymen't "wholly- day evening. The fourth concert is within the spaiu Bateson owned co'rporation of the Califor- scheduled for two weeks from atrium. The pr.ogram will include nia C:onference of Employer Asso- Mondlay. Beethoven's -Grand Septet. for ciatio'ns,''-1 a'n anti-labor lobbyinlg * -Oakland' en- group based at Sacramento. The. Symphony, Strings and-Winds. The. CC-EA in its news- couraged by thie success of its re- Tickets are- $10 for the Farber- reports cent free concert, has -letter--tat Califomi'ans for Pair commnunity man concoo "'Morday and $15 for' was formed because scheduled a benefit program Fri- the chmin - m'us'ic- s"oir'ee, two Emp.loym'ent Nov. to raise funds for a many people "4don't understand day, 15, weeks later. Biene'factors who-assist thie difference between concert series to replace thie sched- te program series futter are equal pay uled. sympjhony season if te strike given preferred seting,.xcepti'ons for equal work, which is the law of is not settled. after the 'concerts.and, ifthie"ywhish, the land under Title Seven of thie The Sacramento Symphony listing in.the, program$.. Civil Rights Act, and equal'pay for members of Musicians work of comparable value, which players, The Sacramne:nt msicians is nebulous and abstract..., Local 12, will be conducted by began the'ir'senies on 06t. i4with a Hamld Farbiernm -at 8- p.m.'Mo-- ,. , ^, ,7ftG4-t- i !944 t; -,>!v...... f b day- in thie -auditoriu'm of Hiram cert une th otn of Harry Johnson High School in a program Newstone, thieir former music Datebook- that will include thiree pieces.by director who-volunteered his ser--- Peac Jobs and Justice Conference, Copland and the Sibelius Sym- vices during a visit from England Nov. 2, San Francisco Sfte Univerity. phony No. 2 in D. where he now pursues. his caireer. Farberman, who earlier in his- -On Oct. 28, 'they -presented a caHfominl Labor Federation Execultive career conducted thie Oakland Councg winter meetbg, Dec. 10ll1 highly popular. sin'g along with Marqui's Hotel, Palm Springs. Symphony, has won an Academy Mitch Miller in a concert thlat also Award as a composer. The Cop- included pianist Kathernle Svis- 47th Convention, Cdifioia State Coun- land program will include Fanfar'e toonoff and a Tschaikowsky and dil of Capmers: March 11-14,i 1698 for the Common Man, four dances Gershwin program, Oakland Airport Hilton Hotel. from the score for Rodeo, and A The Oakland Symphony musi- Caifond Labor Federation Executive Lincoln Portrait. Tickets are cians, members of Local 6, will be Counci spring neethg, April 71-9, San available through Tower Video led on Nov. ISby Gregory Barber, Frandciso. outlets and at the door. the principal bassoonist whose Pre-primary convention,. California The fourth Sacramento program conducting in thie Oct. 22 concert Labor Federaion, Aprl 10, San Frau} is planned as an informal "grand was praised by c'ritics from daily Cico. chamber music soiree" at 7 p.m. newspapers in' Oakland and San joint Legisatve Confernene: May 5-7, Francisco. 1986, Caotd Pla Holiday Inn, A $10 donationt will be solicited Photo by Dan Swinton Sarnento., from those attending, and the Candelario ill dark a member ofUFCW 198C Convention, CaMornio State Bufld- UFW oe will into a "SSave Oak- Rios, sweater, 20-year money go Local 274, helps ranlcher direct new pickets at Clogherty pack- ing rades Council: June 1244, 1986, land Symphony" fulnd to be used ing plant where Farmer Johnl products oriinate. The plant at Capitol Plaz Hofidivy ISi, Sacra- Bares His to prepare a new concert series for Vernon has been closed more than four weekss in strike over mento. music lovers of the East re- Bay employer demands for retrogressions. Pigs' picket signs, unfor- California Labor Federation Executive *Ambitions gion, according to Mark Drury, tunately noit risible here, say, "Ain't makin' bacon for Farmer Couincil summer meeting, July 23, Sac secretary of the players association., John.' ramento. David Stirling wantg to be at- It appeared, meanwhile, that the torney general of California. Oakland Association Sixteenth Convention, Califai Labor The man whose ouster as Sympho'ny Federation: July 28-Aug. 1, 1986, Capi- was usin'g the success of the musi- contract and the right to tol Plaza Holiday Inn, Sacraento. general counsel of the California reduce the d'emanded raise Labor Relations cians' free community concert for third-year by Mime Trou'pe,. Agricultural leverage in negotiations for inore whatever sum it set as the mon'e- Board has been demanlded by- favorable termns at the City-owned tary value of work rule changes Publisher's Notce church leaders told the Bakersfield Paramount Theatre of the Arts. and othier items the orchestra Equit Agree. The Cdiforna AFL6CIO News Californian: The Oakland Tribune reported members are ask'in'g. The San Francisco Mime (ISSN: 0008"0802) is publisbed "sThe major factor is whether that-the association had threatened The musicians cite salaries and and.Actors' Asso- weekly except during the weeks of. can. be raised to Troupe Equity enough money to quit the Paramnount and move budgets of comparable orchestras ciation have signed an agreement, Tbanksgiering, Christmas and setid out a message. ' to their that the New Year's bol}days by the Cal-. thie orchestra. to some othier hall. support 'argument and te'Troupe has been removed fornia Labor AFIIr Stirling tried for attorney general The it was Oakland orchestra pays a sinaller List. lFederation, only alternative hall, from the AF;L-CIO Unfair - in 10982 with li'tt-le fin%anci;al bac-~,, generally agreed, would be th.e proportion of its income for C10,995 Market Stret,SnF ing and lost in the Republican salaries. The Troupe, which tours the cic, CoN. 94103. Secod &= newly-refurbished Calvin Sim- pgfepaidat So Fhnlc, Cal- primary. mons Hall in HIenry J. Kaiser Con- At Sacrmnento, the musicians country with performnances billed The GOP money picture could as and wound lif.-Subscription: S3.50. a year. vention Center, where acoustics were locked out despite an offer to pro-union pro-labor,. USPS PubHftion Number 083- change in 1986, ac.cording to the the season up on the list Iastl ..May after Californian. were praised by critics when the play regular symphony .400. Jofin K He_,imectle orchestra played its free concert. while contract negotiations resisting AEA since 1980). eluy-er; ~Floyd licker,, The newspaper, which is The known as continue. published in the rich agricultural hall, formerly Oak- Alan Eis'enberg, executive sec- editor. IPOSTNMASTER: Send ad- land Auditorium Theatre, recently The musicians have refused to retary of Actors' Equity in New dress cbesgi to:Calfornia AFI6 heartland of the San Joaquin Valley from a back away from their opposition to Suite and generally reflects views of' emerged long remodeling York? said the.agreement covered CIO News, 995 Market St., following takeover by private playing full-time for part-time pay. the Troupe's current eastern tour... 310, San Fmancisco, CA 94103. agribusiness, observed: interests. They also have cited budgets of "As the ALRB chief prosecutor, The Oakand musicians struck community orchestras in other "SNegotiations will c-ontinue Stirling's views have won enthusi- after the orchestra association cities to demonstrate that the from there, whereupon we do not cm astic approval by Republican- foresee or anticipate a problem," ,IS offered minimal, raises in thie first Sacramento association is paying. WAM. LA. . AMOM"M oriented growers." two years of a proposed three-year substandard salaries. Eisenberg said. Page 2 November 1 --1985 Tim San Twomey, left,. president, Francisco Labor Council; Leo Mayer, center, Sarah Palmer-Amos, left, secretary, Monterey County Ce`nt_r_al__L'abi r Co'uncil; Mary president, California State Employees Association, art Bob Welch were part of the Curtin, executive secretary-treasurer, Central Labor Council of San Service Employees International Union delegat'ion. Bernardino and KirklandSets Anahei~mRiversideCovnioCounties, and William C. Demers, CWA District,11hviceIpresident.

(Continuedfrom Page 1) 7.1 percent that translates to 12.6 grow even stronger as we respond percent, of the workforce idle. to modern challenges in modern lHe said much of America has ways. been devastated by the surrender to "I believe that the credit for aggressive mercantilism of other these dramatic turn-arounds goes nations. Labor suffers, he said, in large part to ou}r president, Lane because "...unlike capital, labor Kirkland. He rolled up his sleeves is one with the communities in and led us through difficult times. which we live. We cannot join . .. He encouraged participation all capital in its flight to tax-free over the United States, including havens overseas. We cannot run up places like Orange County that the Liberian flag... patriotism is have not been considered friendly not only our duty and belief, but territory. our necessity.' ''Orange County admires your He declared that the spiraling courage and vision. It is n'ow my lnational debt and growing trade pleasure to present the gavel of this !deficit did not grow from any in- convention to the President of the 'herent vice in the nation's political, AFL-CIO, Lane Kirkland.'' social or economic system. Kirkland, noting that thirty years "It is the creation and uiltimate had Present as observer-s from the Santa Cruz County Central-Council were, from left, David Lyle, Penny passed since the merger of the Schantz and Jonathan Boutelle. legacy of Ronald Re'agan a poison American Federation of Labor and pill in the body politic. It was Congress of Industrial Organiza- ovcrall growth has been stymied, its appeal. ... nor because of any tain the Amer-ican standard of designed and contrived to wither tions, called upon the convention that a new labor force has grown delinquency of leadership. .. . lving. away the benign. domestic func- to applaud eight delegates who also up around us and that the trade "What has happened to these "For the first time we have a tions of the state which shield the were present at the first AFL-CIO union share of it has dropped. unions is a measure of what has young generation of Americans people from the deadlier aspects of convention in 1955: Al who do not the Heaps, "The good ncws is that'we havc happened to America.. . the con- expect to do as well as jungle of the market place. It is RWDSU; Charles A. Perlik, Jr., a hell of a lot more people to sequences will not be confined to their parents. Their opportunities meant to kill new programs aborn- The Newspaper Guild; Bill Stein- organize, and we do mean to their members alone but will ex- are shrinking and so are their ing far into the future." berg, American Radio Associa- organize them." tend across society," Kirkland hopes." Kirkland concluded with the ob- tion; Richard Walsh, IATSE; Kirkland continued: said. At the time of merger, Kirkland servation that labor faces a great George Hardy, SEIU; Sol Stein, "We are 52 but not going to do it in spite of ";It is a profound national prob- pointed out, percent of Ameri- challenge, for the first then TWUA and now Passaic the barriers and hurdles raised by can families could afford to pur- time. Labor lem and must be addressed as County Council; Gordon the current National Labor Rela- such." chase a "smodest priced" home, He quoted Theodore Roosevelt: Flory, Louisiana Federation, and tions laws. while 30 can. "We see across the the The today only percent dangers Henry Rogers, Bucks County Cen- "We shall do it in the face of a steady erosion of America's He pointed out that president great future, and we rejoice as a industr - tral Labor Council of Penn- national administration and a na- ial base, he said, is depriv Reagan has said the country enjoys giant refreshed... the great vic- sylvania. tional climate that has drained the ing millions of young workers of an economic miracle while there is tories are yet to be won, the The audience of more than life from a national policy-still on stable, well-paying jobs that sus- an official unemployment rate of greatest deeds yet to be done." 1,000 delegates plus spectators in the books-of encouraging work- the vast hall at the Anaheim Hilton ers to be represented by a union of Hotel applauded as Kirkland re- their own choosing, leaving that cited undertakings of the Federa- 50-year-old policy virtually a Entertaining te visitors tion since 1955 in response to corpse, looking for a graveyard. changing circumstances and needs: Kirkland was halted by applause * An Internal Disputes Plan, again when he said: "faddressing a problem experts "The trade union movement in said would surely tear us apart.'' America was not created by the * The Human Resources Devel- National Labor Relations Board, opment Institute. and this yellow dog board cannot * George Meany Center for stop the trade union movement of Labor Studies. America. We are going to outlast * Housing Investment Trust. the bastards and sign up their un- * Labor's Institute for Public dertakers on our way forward into Affairs. the future." * Four international institutes. The AFL-CIO president cited * Five support groups, APRI, spectacular growth in the 30 years LCLAA, CLUW, Frontlash and since merger of many unions, In- Senior Citizens. cluding fire fighters, service em- * Four additional departments, ployees, communications workers, including Industrial Union, Public postalI workers, pilots, actors and Employees, Professional Employ- artists and state, county and ees- and Foo and Allie Srvce municipal workers. Employees, to serve special needs "But we have fewer auto work- and enhance cooperation of affili- ers, fewer steel workers, fewer ates in those sectors. garment and textile workers, fewer "'This is not the record of a railroad workers and, alas, many stand-pat organization mired inB fewer deep sea sailors than we did complacent self-reg.ard,"' he in 1955," said Kirkland who declared. himself was -a licensed master Kirkland said there was good mariner. Don Hightower, left, California Labor Federa- stitute, with AFL-CIO convention guests news and bad in terms of labor's "We have fewer of them be- tion fi'eld representative, and Norman HIill, na- Mostafa Ibrahim of Egypt and Abdoulayre organizing mission. cause there are fewer of them - tional president of the A. Philip Randolphi In- Mohamud of Niger, at right. "The bad news is that our not because trade unionism has lost November 1, 1985 Page 3 'Meeting the Challenge of the Futu.re,' theme of the 16th blenniel Constitutional Convention, was emblazoned acro'ss meeting hall on bold signs behind speakeres' platori. SprtdDbte oBtl OverNicaragua Resolution~9

(ContinuedfSrom Page I) the Contras when U.S. assistance mer, two representatives of the arranged by the American Institute was delayed by Congress. He con- AFL-CIO's American Institute of for Free Labor Development, the tended that these two circum- Free Labor Development who AFL-CIO body that supervises the stances were reason enough for were slain in San Salvador, had not federation's programs in Latin trade unionists to oppose the been brought to justice America. Contras. But he short of Ed Asner, of the stopped arguing Blaylock said he had seen evi- president for rejection of the compromise dence tliat Salvadoran death squads Screen Actors Guild, termed sup- resolution, saying that he'd like to had been replaced by the military, port 'for the Contras' "'un- see it changed in the future. with U.S. advisers. forgivable."' "I still believe other nations Leon Lynch, a vice president of He contended that the- Contras have some right of self determina- the United -Steel Workers, argued were warring not against Nicara- tion," Asner said. "We do not for 'the compromise 'resolution, guan soldiers but against civilians have the right to dictate how peo- pointing out that AFL-CIO support and declared that he'd like his ple in Nicaragua or El Salvador projects in Latin America are government to be on the side ofthe should be governed." undertaken at the urging of trade people. Noting expressions of outrage unionists there.. He said the San- HIe noted that the Reagan Ad- over suspension of civil rights in dinistas h-ad failed to. live up to ministration supports the Contras Nicaragua, Asner asked where the their revolutionary pledges and and that the Coors family, opera- voices of outrage were when Con- said he was forced to the conclu- tors of the boycotted Colorado tras mined Nicaraguan harbors sion that basic trade union rights Paul l)empster, center, president of Sailors' Union of the Pacific, has been identifiled with U.S. assistance. had been violated in Nicaragua. conferred with Jeff Greendorfer, left, and Walter Johnson of San brewery, Francisco Labor Council. among rich conservatives who Asner noted that the murderers John T. of the of Mike Pearlman and Mark Ham- Joyce, president contributed millions of dollars to Bricklayers, also argued for the trade union rights that they have the other, and he observed that; resolution. just suspended and to open a dia- only two persons actually' had "We're not here to decide what logue aimed at genuine pluralism. urged defeat of the compromise Convetion ecide thie foreign policy will be of the Shanker of the Teachers Union resolution. Coors brewing company or, for took the floor to cite the failure of Kirkland closed the debate with Sot Afric Polic that matter, Ronald Reagan's the Sandinistas to live up to a denunciation of any attempt to foreign policy. What we're here pledges. He enumerated basic link AFL-CIO policy with actions for is to determnine foreign policy rights that have been suspended by of the Reagan Administration and The AFL-CIO convention has dependent black trade union move- for the AFL-CIO, and that is what recent actions of the Nicaraguan the- Coors family. condemned apartheid as a "moral ment as being in violation of "in- this resolution addresses." regime. He refuted any notion that the affront to civilized humanity."9 ternationally accepted labor stan- He said that he, too, probably Federation had not strenuously The resolution on foreign dards." Joyce said every person in the pursued the murderers of unionists policy. convention hall could that would be fighting as a Contra-if he passed by delegates at An'aheim The delegates rejected the agree were faced with the same depriva- Hammer and Pearlman in San Sal- this week to guide the Federation Reagan Adminlistration policy of the practice of trade unionism is tion of rights. vador, revealing that investigators for two years calls upon govern- "constructive engagement" and the practice of democracy, and he The obligation of the AFL-CIO had been hired and sent to El Sal- ments of indu}strial democracies to declared that for stable dem- said this was the heart of the vador and that witnesses had been hope resolution. is to defend free trade unionism, ban new investments in South ocracy and trade union and human Shanker said. At least, he con- brought to this country and given Africa, end all investment guaran- rights depend upon: "The solution in both countries, tended, the federation should new identities to protect them from tees, export credits and trade pro- * Unconditional release of trade El Salvador and Nicaragua, as our refuse to give-any recognition to reprisals. motions, stop new bank loans; halt union and political prisoners. resolution so well states, is dia- puppet unions set up by the gov- Kirkland also praised Federation sale of Kruggerands and purchase * Abandonment of internal logue," Joyce continued. "SWe ernment of Nicaragua. staffers who undertake projects of South African coal; embargo security legislation that allows in- must pressure both sides to con- Jules Vehlein of the Pennsyl- abroad that often are dangerous, sale of arms to that country; and definite detainment without trial or tinue the dialogue that Duarte vania AFL-CIO called for the saying that they should be given a punish violators of the U.N. oil charge. started ... we must pressure the question after more than a dozen helping hand rather than a knife in embargo. * An end to influx control Sandinistas to restore the basic speakers had argued on one side or the back. The resolution calls upon gov- provisions. ernments to compel disinvestment * Dialog between the regime in the energy and high-technology and freely chosen black leaders Una~~nimu oeo rd fields and to force disinvestment concerning extension. of basic by all multi-national companies democratic rights to all on the basis that have been identified by the in- of full equality. (Continugdfrom Page I) *Easing of the standard for im- market since the divestiture of Sol C. Chaikin of the Ladies' Gar- port reliefby recognizing that plant AT&T two. years ago. ment 'Workers and William H. closings and layoffs are proof of serious *Adoption of policies to Bywater of the Electronic injury. substantially increase the portion Workers. * Enactment of domestic- of cargo carried in U.S.-flag ships Reversal of the trade deficit, content legislation for the autom- to assure a strong shipbuilding which is bile industry.to force companies capability in this country. soaring beyond last year's that benefit- from access to our $123 should be a of billion, goal markets to provide a suitable * Restoration of the Trade Ad- U.S. trade law, the, resolution number of jobs for American justment Act to provide adequate declared. It stated also that the workers. compensation to people unem- U.S. should have once again an ployed because of trade, with im- "4advanced and diversified econ- * Passage of the Textile & Ap- proved funding for training, job omy promoting full employment parel Recovery Act to "roll back search and relocation and the ex- and rising living standards.'' imports to a reasonable and stable tension of assistance to level." supplier in- The resolution called for: dustries. whose workers also are * Congressional action to pro- victimized when foreign trade * Relief from such unfair trade vide reli'ef to te. beleaguered disrupts a basic industry. practices as dumping, subsidies American shoe industry, which and disruptive imports from non- President Reagan denied despite * A major effort to readjust cur- market economies. the recommendations of the Inter- rency values to more realistic national Trade Commission. levels, since an oyer-valued U.S. 9 An end to the practice of dollar makes foreign-made goods foreign governments of expanding * Legislation to stop the flood of a more attractive bargain and Cesar Chavez, president, and Dolores HIuerta, rirst v'ice presi'dent, their sales and employment at the. telecommunicati'ons products that makes it harder to sell American represented United Farm Workers Uilion. expense of the United States. have inundated the American goods overseas. 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