In June, Farrell Lines and Moore-McCormack Lines have at least six ships carrying Rhodesian and South African goods scheduled into the port of Baltimore. In both Rhodesia and South Africa, minority white regimes totally run the country. The majority African populations is reduced to providing the labor on the plantation, in the mines, and in factories for starvation wages, and in slave camp conditions. They are denied virtually every human right and brutalized for the least sign of resistance. While the rulers of these countries live in luxury, the lion's share of the profits is ripped off by big American corporations like Union Carbide, Bethlehem Steel, Maryland Nation and Chase Manhattan...
In June, Farrell Lines and Moore-McCormack Lines have at least six ships carrying Rhodesian and South African goods scheduled into the port of Baltimore. In both Rhodesia and South Africa, minority white regimes totally run the country. The majority African populations is reduced to providing the labor on the plantation, in the mines, and in factories for starvation wages, and in slave camp conditions. They are denied virtually every human right and brutalized for the least sign of resistance. While the rulers of these countries live in luxury, the lion's share of the profits is ripped off by big American corporations like Union Carbide, Bethlehem Steel, Maryland Nation and Chase Manhattan Banks, Farrell Lines, etc. Without the support of these corporations and the U.S. government, these puppet regimes would not stand for a day. The African people are resisting this oppression and exploitation. In Zimbabwe, the people have taken up arms and engaged in fighting for liberation. In South Africa, last year, 50,000 African workers staged a general strike in the cities, and this year, African mine-workers struck for their rights. Through all these struggles, the people are realizing that they are fighting not only a white minority regime, but a worldwide system of exploitation: IMPERIALISM. The United Nations has voted a ban on trade with the Rhodesian regime. During the past two years, rank and file longshoremen in Baltimore (and Philadelphia, Norfolk, New Orleans and San Francisco) have showed the bosses that they don't plan to unload cargo from Rhodesia and South Africa. Now the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) has officially adopted a resolution against unloading Rhodesian cargo, which should make the boycott more effective. Slogans on the leaflet include DON'T UNLOAD THE SHIPS!, SAME ENEMY- SAME FIGHT, AND IN UNITY THERE IS STRENGTH - IN STRENGTH THERE IS VICTORY!! The leaflet includes contact information of the African Liberation Support Committee and On The Line newspaper.
