[Dear Senator Dixon: We present to you today this urgent plea to co-sponsor and work for Comprehensive Sanctions against South Africa (Senate Bill 507).]
[Dear Senator Dixon: We present to you today this urgent plea to co-sponsor and work for Comprehensive Sanctions against South Africa (Senate Bill 507).]
Letter to Senator Alan J. Dixon on Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) Chicago letterhead signed by Johnnie M. Jackson, President, Chicago Chapter, Coalition of Labor Union Women and Carol Travis, President, Local 719, United Auto Workers (UAW). The letter says we present to you today this urgent plea to co-sponsor and work for Comprehensive Sanctions against South Africa (Senate Bill 507); we are here on behalf of local affiliates of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, Free South Africa Movement, Hotel /Restaurant Employees, National Organization for Women, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Amalgamated Transit Union, Chicago Commission on Women, United Auto...
Letter to Senator Alan J. Dixon on Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) Chicago letterhead signed by Johnnie M. Jackson, President, Chicago Chapter, Coalition of Labor Union Women and Carol Travis, President, Local 719, United Auto Workers (UAW). The letter says we present to you today this urgent plea to co-sponsor and work for Comprehensive Sanctions against South Africa (Senate Bill 507); we are here on behalf of local affiliates of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, Free South Africa Movement, Hotel /Restaurant Employees, National Organization for Women, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Amalgamated Transit Union, Chicago Commission on Women, United Auto Workers, Ladies Garment Workers Union, Food and Commercial Workers, Service Employees Union, United Steelworkers, United Mine Workers, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers, Labor Network Against Apartheid, and many other organizations. The letter says we bring this message to you as we commemorate South African Women's Day; this day honors the 20,000 women who 33 years ago defied apartheid terror to go to Pretoria to protest the extension of pass laws to women. The letter says empty words condemning apartheid are useless; we want and we demand action on the Sanctions bill from the Senate Democratic leadership, of which you are part; inside South Africa, the voices of opposition to apartheid are clear; the South African Council of Churches, the trade unions, both labor federations and major political opposition groups are united in their call for Comprehensive Sanctions as the strongest available means to enhance the democratic forces in South Africa and to bring about freedom. The letter says apartheid must be replaced by democratic majority rule, a principle upon which our country is based; a principle which black South Africans seek, but the apartheid regime totally opposes. The letter says current U.S. policy is hypocritical and immoral; it makes a mockery of U.S. cries for freedom, justice and democratic rights in the world. How very little we hear from you and other Senate leaders about democratic rights in the land of apartheid! The letter says participating in presenting this message with the two above signers are: Rosetta Daylie, Associate Director, AFSCME Council 31; Geraldine McPartlin, Vice President, Local 1, Hotel / Restaurant Employees; Lettie Robinson, Women's Committee Chair, Local 241, Amalgamated Transit Union; Sue Purrington, Executive Director, Chicago NOW; Martha Sotomayor, Assistant Director, Francoise Johnson and Angela Dutt of the Chicago Commission on Women; Alice Palmer, Democratic Committeewoman, 7th Ward; and Katie Jordan, Secretary, Local 5, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers. The letter discusses the South African Council of Churches (SACC) and NOW (National Organization of Women).
