The leaflet says that Lane Kirkland, President of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka of the United Mine Workers, and Owen Bieber of the United Autoworkers recently announced a nationwide boycott of Royal Dutch Shell because Shell has refused to honor a worldwide embargo of oil products to South Africa. South Africa does not have its own oil, so without oil supplied by corporations like Shell, they would be unable to fuel the Mirage jets, the Eland armored cars, and armed personnel carriers used by the white minority government to control the black majority and conduct armed intervention of neighboring states. This nationwide Shell boycott can be effective in hastening the end of apartheid if it is...
The leaflet says that Lane Kirkland, President of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka of the United Mine Workers, and Owen Bieber of the United Autoworkers recently announced a nationwide boycott of Royal Dutch Shell because Shell has refused to honor a worldwide embargo of oil products to South Africa. South Africa does not have its own oil, so without oil supplied by corporations like Shell, they would be unable to fuel the Mirage jets, the Eland armored cars, and armed personnel carriers used by the white minority government to control the black majority and conduct armed intervention of neighboring states. This nationwide Shell boycott can be effective in hastening the end of apartheid if it is taken up seriously. The leaflet asks people to pass a resolution in their local union and central labor council endorsing the boycott.
