An educational leaflet about U.S. companies in South Africa and their role regarding apartheid. The leaflet includes sections on APARTHEID - DESIGNED TO ASSURE CHEAP LABOR, LABOR RESISTANCE TO APARTHEID, ARE U.S. INVESTMENTS A FORCE FOR PROGRESS? IS SOUTH AFRICA REALLY REFORMING? SOUTH AFRICANS ASK FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT, and AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL. Apartheid is described a sophisticated series of laws and structures created to deliver a steady supply of cheap black labor to a wealthy industrialized economy. Strike waves in 1973, 1976, 1980, 1981 and 1982 have defied employer and government strategies to suppress or control the union movement. Despite the imprisonment, torture,...
An educational leaflet about U.S. companies in South Africa and their role regarding apartheid. The leaflet includes sections on APARTHEID - DESIGNED TO ASSURE CHEAP LABOR, LABOR RESISTANCE TO APARTHEID, ARE U.S. INVESTMENTS A FORCE FOR PROGRESS? IS SOUTH AFRICA REALLY REFORMING? SOUTH AFRICANS ASK FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT, and AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL. Apartheid is described a sophisticated series of laws and structures created to deliver a steady supply of cheap black labor to a wealthy industrialized economy. Strike waves in 1973, 1976, 1980, 1981 and 1982 have defied employer and government strategies to suppress or control the union movement. Despite the imprisonment, torture, murder, "bannings," and exile of trade unionists, independent unions are strong; strikes, secondary boycotts, city-wide general strikes and consumer boycotts have successfully welded the unions and worker communities around a variety of social and economic demands. The leaflet says $TOP BANKING ON APARTHEID participates in the national Campaign to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa. The last section of the leaflet asks: WHAT CAN WE DO? Actions include: SPREAD THE WORD about U.S. support for and profit from apartheid; PROTEST bannings, arrests and exile of South African trade unionists; PREVENT EXTERNAL FINANCING of South Africa's economy by withdrawing personal and organizational accounts from financial institutions lending to South Africa and redepositing that money in credit unions, in smaller savings and loans, and banks that invest in your community; and DIVEST PENSION FUNDS from corporations involved in South Africa. The leaflet quotes Prime Minister J. B. Vorster; Senator Dick Clark (D-Iowa); John Gaetsewe, Genera l Secretary of South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU); Mark Stepp, United Auto Workers (UAW) Vice President; David Packard, Chairman of Hewlett-Packard; The North Will Rise Again: Pensions, Politics and Power in the 1980's, J. Rifkin and R. Sarber; and Desmond Tutu, Anglican Bishop and General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches (SACC). The leaflet mentions the Sullivan Principles, the Wiehahn Commission, the Riekert Commission, black townships, U.S. military support, United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), importing cheap South African coal, the Masters and Servants Act, International Association of Machinists (IAM) Local 284, Caterpillar Tractors, an anti-discrimination campaign, U.S. workers and taxpayers, Bank of America, Citibank, First National Bank of Boston, Wells Fargo, and First National Bank of Chicago, links with the South African independent unions, trade ties, boycott of U.S. companies that trade with South Africa, environmental safeguards, and plant protection militias.
