The speech says today we meet early Monday morning Thanksgiving week; a week when we celebrate throughout the U. S., see our families and say thanks for what we've got. The speech says but there is no such Thanksgiving day in South Africa; there is no freedom; and Moses Mayekiso and many of our union brothers and sisters there are in jail; and all Blacks live yet today under the racist tyranny of Apartheid and the white South African government. The speech say we may agree on few things in this room, and disagree on many things. The speech says who would make the best President of the U.S.? The speech says Freedom - No one, including you and I, is really free unless all of us is free. So we...
The speech says today we meet early Monday morning Thanksgiving week; a week when we celebrate throughout the U. S., see our families and say thanks for what we've got. The speech says but there is no such Thanksgiving day in South Africa; there is no freedom; and Moses Mayekiso and many of our union brothers and sisters there are in jail; and all Blacks live yet today under the racist tyranny of Apartheid and the white South African government. The speech say we may agree on few things in this room, and disagree on many things. The speech says who would make the best President of the U.S.? The speech says Freedom - No one, including you and I, is really free unless all of us is free. So we must fight to make everyone free. The speech says the labor movement - rank and file, leaders, executive boards, district councils, local union officers - all of us here in Chicago and Illinois can do more and must do more to help trade unionists in South Africa; we are smart enough, compassion enough and angry enough to do more. The speech says we can only do more if we commit ourselves to work together - to put our collective clout behind our brothers and sisters in South Africa. The speech discusses union issues. [It is not known who gave this speech or what the event was.]
