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SOUTH
AFRICA
The truth about South Africa
has been
revealed
by
the South African prime minister
Vorster.
With
a
single decree
he
banned
two news-
papers and every black organization in the
country-from
the
Soweto
Students
Reprto-
sentative Committee right throughout to the
Christian Institute .
At the
same
time, it is now absolutely clear
that Steve Biko, the s tud ent leader who died in
prison w
as
murdered.
is autopsy showed
massive concussions on h
is
head.
For years we were told by
newspapers and
politicians in this country that given time,
South Africa would g radually move towards
greater rights for the black population.
ESSEX STRIKER BEATEN
Next time, I'll
be
prepared
ELWOOD, IND-Georgia
Ellis , of UA
W
Local
11>63.
is
the elected spokesperson fOf
the strikers Bt
Essex
Wire
in
Elwood. Indiana .
She is
tireless
in her
efforts
to
get
the word of the strike
to
Essa plants
elsew
here
and
to all who might sympathltc
with
the
cause or
the two
hun
dred Elwood striken,
who
are
predominantlywt>men .
On the morning of Oct . 12
Ellis was
anacted
and brutally
beaten by a man who h
ad
entered
her
home. She ,. ...
badly bruised
.
her
cheekbone
was cracked. and quantities
of
her
hair
were
pulled out.
Despite
the toll
taken
on her
slight
frame by the
aac;f.
Ellis . who is
a
grandmother.
was soon bact at her job
spreading the news about the
strike .
The next time somebody
comes in ... Ellis said. I'll
be
prepared .
ESSEX
According to Ellis. the man
was not one
sh
recognized
as being
from the
rural
EJwood
community. Essex
has been using out
of
town
scabs and out
of
town goons
in the course of th
.
the
Lake Distritt m
England. and a large of
Qntano
, Can
ada
. Next tlm
t
: : : : : : : : ~ ~ : . :
oetrolt
>
John
C.
Fuller. Ballantine
tinoks. New York. 1975. 2
page. SJ.95 .
We Almool Loot Detroit is
th
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Duncan Hallas
Portland anti-Bakke
speaks for ISO demo draws 200
PORTLAND.
OR
- With dem
onstrationsacmss
tht'
nation
against the
Bakke
decision.
200 members of the Oregon
Coa lition to Defeat tht Bakke
Decision
marched through
downtown
Portland
to
a r a i l ~
S ~ u _ ' d R y . O c t o b e r
15.
The
Coalition initiated its
activities with a plc.:kct line
J davs earlier when t h ~
U.S
S u p ~ m e Cour1 be-wan hcar
mgs
on thc . Bakkl
case
.
Th
e
:uurd:J.y rally hl"ard militant
spcakt.rs daborncc on
tht
: : ~ ~ ~
a ~ ~ ; i - ~ i ~ : : ~ ~ ~ -
Duncan Hallas .
the national
chairperson of
the Socialist
Workers Part\
(Great Brirain>
is presently
-
on
a
speaking
tOur of ISO branches
and
college
campuses.
Fascism
in Britain.
Euroco
m
munism.
and
The
Need for a
Revolutionary
Party .
Hallas
has
aJso travelled
to Can-da to speak
for
the
International
Socialists-Ca
nada. a fraternal group of the
SWP (08) and the
ISO
.
swp the Anack.s on minori ,
ries
and
women."
"Defend
'
and extend
affirmati\ ' ( altion
injobsandeducation
.
Portland anU-&lle dem.,...lratlon
He has spoken to well
aHcnded meetings in New
England.
Ohi
o.
Pennsylvania.
Indiana and Chicago. and will
traveltotheWestCoast.
The range of topics have
included
The Meaning of
Marxism , the Fight Against
Hallas
wilt
ronclude his
tour
In Boston
on Novembet
12th. at the
ISO
New England
regional conference. He will
be speaking
on Revolutionary
Traditions . 0
SPEAKERS
A
speaker
from the Natic.mal
Lawyers Guild pointed out th
weaknesses
in
Bakke'
s
case
Thccasehadnot
been def end
ed well.
he
claimed. because
the
university was
indifferent
to the needs of minority stu
dents. A
black city worker
i;pok.t
nn
the
special
problems
of minority women and th
e
ncccssitv
for women
of
all
ra ces to unit> and fight
for
their rights.
All speakers empha \ized
that the
way
to fight for affir
mativeactionistohelprebuild
the m o " c m c n t ~ o f b l a c h and
women
that
had gotten
affir
mative "''tiOn
programs
started.
The spokespe
rson
assured
the rally
that
thc t."nli tion
will(. . 'Ontinuctofocuspublic
attcntion on
the Bakke CMC
and other
actions
that will
stand up for the
impurtancc
: ~ a n ~ ~ ~ m a t i v e f''
tion
SOCIALIST
ANITA IN INDY
WORKER ---
FUNDAPPE'AL
INDIANAPOUS. IN-
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y t eY, .
want to close
1
Cleveland's
BETSY LEWIS
schools
he Board of Education and i .cromc a political football ga tiou . schools rc
rei
vcd next year 's
CLEVELAND,
OH-O n Octo its President. Arnold ' Pinck for politicians and business The State Auditor and State budget money.
ber
6.
th
CIC'vcland School ney. an insurance executive. men . Not only are the y using Superintendent both author Amidst great publicity.
Board announced that Cleve along with the
~ p e r i n t e n d e n t
bllsing.. to try to divide ized th e closing of the Cleve teachers voted J to I to con-
land 's schools were dead of Schools, Paul Brigg s a people and set whites and land schools bv Octo
ber 21
tinuc working withou t pay
broke and that
the
y wo uld banker.
arc
determined
to
blacks a g a i
n ~ t
eatl)>other. but -
because of the
ack
of
funds . Cus todians and othe r
wo
rkers
have to close down on Octobe r fight de
segrega
tion and bus the y arc divtded on
th
issue But the Bo
ard
added that voted unanimously to continue
t-7. mg . themselve s . there was one wav for the working: th(' bus driver
s.
This wou ld not have been The
Judge.
on the ot her schools to remain
oPen- if
the being
Teamsters
did nQt \TOll'
the first school closure in hand . is bound and
deter
CRISIS teachers . custodians. bus driv Out also
agreed
to work .
Ohio. Toledo sc hools did mined to earn ou t the
law- to
The School Board figure s if crs and oth
er
workers were But. in all of this excite
close in
October-until
Jan -
desegregate
the Cleveland it c
an't
stop de
segre
gation willing to continue working mcnt. one
imponant
falt was
uarv. 1978.
Other
distrk-ts Schools-a very delayed re-
and
busing . it can at least without pay . ignored . Thi s pnst April ,
have also
been
shut
down .
sponse
to
the struggles
people delay it. And most
imponant. In
Ohio.
sc
hools are not
Judge
Battisti had ruled
that
But in Cleveland. the issue made in the SOs and 60 ' s t
h
Board can use the willing allowed deficit financing to no school oould close
wi
thout
is not money . II is busing . for integrati on and equal newspapers and TV to make meet
th
payroll School
the
Co
urt's
permisston
And Judge Frank Batisti, the opportunity for black and the judge look foolish and to workers would either have to because schools might be
man who has
ordered
busing white
students.
make using seem ridiculous . wait until the legislature closed to further
segregate
}:r ~ : v e
J : n ~ ~ ~ ~ v ~ ~ e
w ~ ~ ~ u :
s t ~ ~ n ~ l a ~ ~ n ~ ~ o ~ ~ = : ~
r u ~ ; ~ ~ h : ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ d ~ : : : : ~
F n a ; s t ~ ~
~ ~ h n t ~ m : : r o a ~ : ; : ~ ~ ~ ; ~ ~ p : c ~ : ~ l the de
: ; u " n ~ ~ . ~ c e m e n t a " publicity : : ~ : : : ~ : t : ~ g d h ~ h ~ r ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ n ~ ~ ~ ~ d ~ ~ : ~ : ~ ~
d ~ ~ ~ ~ \ ~ a ~ ' : t " u : ~ ~ k ~ h ~ k ~ ~ : o o ~ b o ~ ~ r ~ h i : " . : ~ :
... H IS_P_A_N IC
C-O_U_N_C_I_L_R_E_P_O,_R_,T..ai S...--------.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ a d t ~ ~ r r : u ~ ~ ~
~ ~ ~ ;
and
hard o er the
closing
of
s ix school s at the begin
No American dream here j : : g ~ ~ f ; ~ : ~ ~ ; : t ~ : ~ : r : ;
NORTHAMPTON,
MA-Dis
crimination in one way or
another affects all Third
World people in this valley.
In
this area, (Northampton),
the main
.;ctlms are
Latinos.
most
or
whom
are
Pllertor
riquenos. who came here
under the illusion that they
would fiud wort
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'The coal
companies.
for
whom 1 speak. are detennined
to eliminate the wildcat.
TIONAL
COAL CONTRACT
These were the words of
Joseph P. Brennan, the presi
dent of the
Bituminous
Coal
Operators
Association
(BCOA).
EXPIRES IN DECEMBER
He opened this year's nego
tiations with the UMW A with
the threat that, unless the
wildcat strikes are stopped,
"It
could well
mart the
begin
ning of the end of the national
coal agreement.
These
were strong words. of
course. But Brennan and the
BCOA
have
been locked
in
battJe with the coal miners for
years now and they are d e t e r ~
mined to force a victory in
the
nationaJ contract which ex
pires
December
7.
On the other side. the
130.000 coal
miners
covered
by
the
national agreement are
equally determined to win a
breakthrough
in
the contract.
and a substantial number of
tbem believe that it is
now
or
never
on
the issue of the
right
to strike-the tey issue
behind the wildcats.
The three years since the
last contrad have seen a
steady escalation i.n the strug
gle in the mines-a struggle
that is
based
on the funda
mental
relations
in the
mines:
job assignment, bidding, safe
ty.
absenteeism.
A1TACK
The companies. enJoytng
their greatest profrts in his
tory. have tried to push pro
ductivity
up
in
the
mines,
and
to do
this they have attacked
the rights and atganization of
the workers in the mines.
The
coal
miners have resis
ted
and the wildcat strike has
been their chief weapon .
1D 1976. wildcat strikes
BJDDOnted tQ million days
wort lost
to the employe:rs
wou by the miners
.
This was
43%
more
than
in 1975 when
1.4 million
days w e ~ won
on
strike . In J977. strikes were
Rank and file miners waut tbe
up by more
than 50%
and
in
the
Scotia explosion
i.n
1976
August had already surpassed when 26
men
were killed, and
the
total number
in
1976, in the day to day slaughter.
figures already unparalled in Thts year 111 miners have
American industry. been killed in the mines.
ln part as a result of this Other
thousands
have been
struggle. coal
miners
have
seriously injured.
forced productivity down in
, . if ie coal
miners. want the
the Unes
by
nearly since right to strike so
that they
can
1969.
At
the same time, they
defend an d
. extend their rights
have maintaine d relatively in the mines without turning
high wages . Under the cur-
to
the time consuming and
..
rent a g t e e ~ J l e n t .
he
a v e r a ~ e biased grievance and arbitra
hourly straight tune pay tn tion procedur-es. and tee from
J9n s S6.67. the interference of he courts.
CONFIJCT The
companies
are
demand
Jt has been a b' 'Ody con
flict.
however . Hundreds
of
miners
have been jailed,
fined.
fired . Many h4ve been
beaten by the police.
The deaths in the mines also
continue. both in the ever
recurring disasters. such as
mg "stability'' in the mines
that is no strikes in the life
of
the
contract. In return the y
promise
"wages, benefits.
and other
amenities.
Arnold Miller. the
~ s i d e n t
of the UMWA, is negotiating
for the
union.
In
1974. Miller presented
the miners an
agreement most
accepted, including a 64%
increase in wages and benefits
over
three years.
He did
001
win. of
course
nations
coat
production
down
from
68% just five years
ago .
At
the same time. the
steel and powet" compames are
boasting of stockpiles
that will
last
more than
three
months,
while hinting
that
they
will
bring
non-union
coal in
from
the
West if necessary
.
Miller, theTefore, is
despa
rately hoping to avoid a strike.
"We
don't
want
a strike.'' he
told reporters when the nego
tiations weTf convened. His
spokesman. Attorney Ronald
Nathan
went farther and
agreed that the union was
more anxious than the com
panies to senle early.
Millers plan is to settle l0
or 1
J days before
the expira
tior . This
will give him time
to have the
members
vote on
the new contrac1 before the
old one
expires
. Coal miners
maintain the tradition
of
"no
contract-no work.
H a ~ y,c-iali''
\\
U1"kN d d h e ~ t(a ' 4 \ l r d()f)r t ' \ er" month . Jur-t
fill ln ..be form
bdo and
c n d O l ' > ~ SS for a ou t eu ( ) t u l
w
rfpthm
:
SlO fM
a p p o t t l ~
~ u h < n p t k m and S10 for
an
1mtitut.lon.uJ
' O U ~ : : r i p t l n n
the right to strike,..and this
Jed
Both Miller
and
the opera-
directly to the massive wildcat tors fear that a strike. once
strike waves
of 1975
and 1976. begun. will develop into a
when
fust
80.000 and
then major confrontation. right
in
the
heart
of
winter
wheri
120
000
miners
organized
pro- energy demands highes1.
longed
nationwide
strikes.
This year, Miller is incom, Nevertheless. on October
pa.rahly weaker. His admini- 27. MilleT was forced to
stration
disintegrated
in 1976 suspend negotiations, saying
and J9n.
His f
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