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...fact that Black organizations are willing to make sacrifices to achieve their goal. While this is true it appears to hold water only in the theoretical statement, as evidenced by the recent strike by GM workers after the company's withdrawal. As Mr. Wilson Jonas, a former union shop steward at Ford, said "For me as a leader to say I'm for disinvestment, knowing that I'm sending thousands of people into darkness is something I can't do. The rank and file don't understand about the sacrifices you have to make to get long-term benefits. They...
...memorial services were held for the 177 miners who died in the Kinross gold-mine disaster a fortnight ago. On a soccer field near the scene of the accident, where 3,000 miners had assembled for the ceremony, several hundred black protesters surrounded the pulpit. One man, a steward of the black National Union of Mineworkers, shouted through a handheld loudspeaker, "We are not going to pray with whites today. We've never been allowed to pray with whites. We'll have our own rites." Soon the field was filled with marching miners, who were joined by hundreds of people...
Leverett House Shop Steward Dennis McCadecredited Bozzotto with upping union wages lastJune when the dining hall workers' contract cameup for renewal...
...like his demonstrations because we'rebeing blamed by Ed Powers," said Kirkland Houseworker and Chief Shop Steward James H. Neil,referring to the Harvard official responsible forlabor negotiations...
...When he is finished, he will cover the corn with plastic held down by old tires. He does not want to keep the corn that way longer than a few months. If he does,"hot spots" will develop where some corn decomposes, then insects will attack. While he is steward of those half-million bushels, he will probe and test constantly. His nose may be his best insurance. "I can smell bad corn," he says...