Mailing to Key Labor Contacts discusses the killing fields of South Africa, where more than 60 people died recently in bloody battles between African National Congress supporters and members of KwaZulu bantustan Chief Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in the segregated townships around Johannesburg. The mailing asks people to pass "Hands Off Labor" resolutions and support local sanctions and to support the strike against Phelps Dodge Corporation by sending letters of protest to Phelps Dodge President G. Robert Durham and solidarity messages to James Motlatsi of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). The mailing reprints a newspaper article "Apartheid is still alive and well on the...
Mailing to Key Labor Contacts discusses the killing fields of South Africa, where more than 60 people died recently in bloody battles between African National Congress supporters and members of KwaZulu bantustan Chief Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in the segregated townships around Johannesburg. The mailing asks people to pass "Hands Off Labor" resolutions and support local sanctions and to support the strike against Phelps Dodge Corporation by sending letters of protest to Phelps Dodge President G. Robert Durham and solidarity messages to James Motlatsi of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). The mailing reprints a newspaper article "Apartheid is still alive and well on the statute books" by Gavin Evans, and a press statement COSATU MEMBERS UNDER ATTACK. It also includes a memorandum, INCIDENTS OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE RELATING TO AFFILIATES OF THE CONGRESS OF SOUTH AFRICAN TRADE UNIONS ON THE WITWATERSRAND. The mailing discusses the African National Congress (ANC), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), UWUSA (United Workers Union of South Africa), the Population Registration Act, the Democratic Party, the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act of 1983, the Electoral Act, the National States Citizenship Act, the Restoration of South African Citizenship Act, the Status of Transkei Act, Bophuthatswana, Venda, Ciskei, the Black States Constitution Act, KwaZulu Police (KZP), the Black Authorities Act, the Aliens Act, the Black Local Authorities Act, the National Education Policy Act, the Education and Training Act. The General Pensions Act, the Health Act, the National Policy for Health Act, the Provincial Government Act, the Interim Measurers for Local Government Act, the Defence Act, SARHWU (South African Railway and Harbour Workers Union), Inkathagate, the South African Police (SAP), FAWU (Food and Allied Workers Union), SACTWU (Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union), VAT, F.W. de Klerk, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), the Paper Printing Wood and Allied Workers Union (PPWAWU), Pan African Shopfitters (Pty) Ltd., G.B. Engineering, Soweto, commuters, Sundumbili Township, shop stewards, Dunswart Railway Station, Actonville Hostel, intimidation, Benoni, an armed group of men, and shop floor conflicts.
