African Activist Archive

The newsletter says the Black brothers and sisters of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), Mozambique, Angola and South Africa are taking up the gun to fight slavery. In the gold and coal mines of South Africa and the chrome and nickel mines of Zimbabwe, black miners are fighting against international corporations and banks. These are the same business interests who have used their vast wealth (stolen from us) to take over the federal government and rip off American working people, who practice racism and finance armed repression of black people in the U.S. The boycotts against Rhodesian cargo that Baltimore dockers have carried out have united black and progressive white workers with the people of Africa and Asia and South America who are fighting imperialism. Many 333 members think that these Rhodesian and South African slave cargos aren't coming into Baltimore because of all the boycotts we've carried out. But last month the Mormaclake unloaded 19 containers with several hundred tons of nickel from South Africa at Harbor Field. Sometime Tuesday night or Wednesday morning (July 24) the African Dawn is due in port, at dock at Pier 3 Locust Point, carrying the same 56 cases of Rhodesian nickel we boycotted in December when the Africa Sun brought them in. The United Nations has proof this nickel is Rhodesian, but Farrell insists saying it's South African. So don't unload the nickel in the crates marked B-13 on the African Dawn. ILA President Gleason has told Johnny Kopp to embargo the nickel, but we can't rely on the union unless we act on our own. The newsletter mentions Electrolytic Nickel, U.S. Steel corporations, and Moore-McCormick.

African Activist Archive

The Dockworker

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