Illinois Labor NetvvorkAgainstApartheid Mailing Address: Machinists District 8, 1225 S. Harlem, Forest Park, IL 60130

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Chairs For further information, Johnnie Jackson President, Chicago Chapter call Kathy Devine at 583-6661 Coalition of Labor Union Women Jack Parton Di rector, District 31 United Steelworkers of America PHOTO /PRESS CALL Bill Stewart Director, Region 4 United Auto Workers A spirited rally to support South African unions will be held Co-Chairs Saturday, Nov. 1 9, 12: 30 pm, at the clothing and textile workers Michael Calendo Directing Business Representative union hall, 333 S. Ashland, Chicago. Keynote speaker will be Richard District 8, Machinists Stephen M. Culen, Executive Director Trumka, international president of the united mine workers, the Rosetta Daylie, Associate Director Council 31, American Federation of sister union of South Africa's largest union. State, County & Municipal Employees Trumka is a dynamic, young and articulate leader at the Elcosie Gresham Pres ident, Local 241 center of a broad effort within the labor movement to build ties Amalgamated Transit Union Phillip lmmesote between unions in the U.S. and South Africa. Director, Region 11 United Food & Commercial Workers At Saturday's rally auto workers, transit drivers, steelworkers Tony Kujawa International Exec. Board, District 12 and other union members will join together to support the call for United Mine Workers of America Arthur Loevy action against the oil companies that supply fuel to South Africa. Manager, Chicago & Central States Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Royal Dutch/Shell, parent company of Shell Oil, is a prime target. and Textile Workers Union Eugene Moats Trumka is co-chair of the Shell boycott campaign in the U.S. President, Joint Council 1 Service Employees International Union Joining Trumka on the podium will be Cong. Charles Hayes, Louis Montenegro Director, Midwest Region Rev. Elmer Fowler of Third Baptist Church, and union leaders Bill Int. Ladies Garment Workers Union Stewart of the auto workers, Rosetta Daylie of AFSCME, and Phil Robert Nelson National Vice-President, American I mmesote of the food and commercial workers union. Federation of Government Employees Robert T. Simpson, Jr. The rally is sponsored by the I 1linois Labor Network Against President, Local 743 International Brotherhood of Tea msters Apartheid, which is part of a growing worldwide network of unions Jacqueline Vaughn President, Chicago Teachers Union who are taking action in solidarity with South African unions. Coordinators In recent years the militant South African labor movement has Kathy Devine Coalition of Labor Union Women moved to the forefront of opposition to apartheid. In response, the (312) 583-6661 Harold Rogers Botha government cracked down on unions and jailed thousands of Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (312) 684-7309 union activists. Strikes and stayaways have burgeoned despite restrictions and have triggered international labor support. The massive 1987 mine workers strike in South Africa instigated the formation of the Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid. Reporters and photographers are welcome at the Nov. 19 rally and will have an opportunity to ask questions of Trumka following his address. For further information, call Kathy Devine at 583-6661 or Curtis Black at 955-8726. * * * *