The mailing says more than 340,000 gold and coal miners have gone on strike in South Africa, the largest economic strike in its history. On August 11, the apartheid government arrested 87 officials of the union. People are asked to send mailgrams to South African Ambassador to the U.S., Bernardus G. Fourie, and to U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz to demand that the right to strike of the National Union of Mineworkers be respected, that imprisoned union leaders be freed, and that all repressive actions towards N.U.M. and COSATU stop immediately.
