[The following Clergy Statement was presented at the December 6, 1984, Press Conference called by Rev. Howard S. Gloyd, Bethel AM Church, on behalf of the Bay Area's religious leaders.]

The statement says we have gathered today... ... to commend and support the San Francisco dock workers for their long and on-going struggle to live out their love and abiding concern for the suffering peoples of South Africa ... to commend and support their resistance to the nightmare of terror and cruelty which the government of that tragic nation imposes on millions ... to commend and support the most recent merging of their word and deed -- their refusal to work South African cargoes aboard vessels calling at their port. The statement says we have also gathered together since this witness may henceforth result in the most severe and clearly insupportable penalties being levied against the dockers involved -- if not, indeed, against their union; thus, the docker, by reason of a recent finding with respect to the contract under which she/he labors, may now be legally required to work such cargoes; by the same token, she/he may now be subjected to an escalating range of penalties upon a continuing refusal to do so. Signers of the statement include: Reverend Howard S. Gloyd - Bethel AME Church; Reverend John C. Moyer - Executive Director, Northern California Ecumenical Council; Reverend Nathaniel Linsey - Presiding Bishop, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church; Reverend Richard L. Lauer - Disciples of Christ (Christian Church); Reverend Michael L. Cooper - Director, Lutheran Urban Coalition; Ms. Ruth Myli - Assistant to the Bishop, Lutheran Church in America; Reverend David Hurty - Ecumenical Officer, Lutheran Church in America; Reverend Leontine Kelly - Residing Bishop, United Methodist Church; Dr. Richard Moore- Synod of the Pacific, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.); Reverend Virstan Y. Choi - Stated Clerk, Classis of Central California, Reformed Church in America; Bishop Nelson W. Trout - American Lutheran Church; Dr. Will Herzfeld - Presiding Bishop, Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches; Reverend Gustav H. Schultz - Auxiliary Bishop, Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches; Father Ray Decker - Consultant on Public Policy, Diocese of Oakland; Reverend Kathy J. Johnson - Associate Executive Director, Northern California Ecumenical Council; Dr. Robert McAfee Brown - Professor of Theology and Ethics, Pacific School of Religion; Dr. Tom Abrogi - Visiting Scholar, Graduate Theology Union; Rabbi Joseph Asher - Congregation Emanu-El; Reverend Harold A. Sutherland - Director, Refugee Services Project, American Baptist Churches of the West; Tony Henry - Executive Secretary, American Friends Service Committee - Northern California Region; Pastor Joe Barndt - St. John's Lutheran Church; Paster William O'Donnell - St. Joseph the Workman Church; Reverend Glenda Hope - San Francisco Network Ministries; Reverend Robert McKenzie - 7th Avenue Presbyterian Church; Monsignor James B. Flynn; Hugh Wire - Western Area Office, Church World Service; Reverend Richard Schiblin - Holy Redeemer Center; Dr. John Lind - Executive Director, Northern California Interfaith Committee on Corporate Responsibility; Ms. Cathy Sachs - Voice in the Wilderness Christian Community; and David -Hartsough - American Friends Service Committee.