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Whereever he went in Michigan campaigning for votes in the March 26 Democratic
caucuse , Jesse Jackson was met by overflow crowds roaring their enthusiasm. The
response to Jackson was constant, widespread and massive.
In Kalamazoo, 4,000 turned out to hear Jackson where Michael Dukakis drew only
500 and Die Gepheardt, 7 . In Benton Harbor a city of 13,000, over �OOO Came to
hear Jackson; in Ann Arbor, 5,000. Lansing Rep. David Hollister was one of those
, swept up in the Jackson movement telling National Public Radio he was swiitching
from Paul Simon to Jackson, "because he puts a fire in your belly. He can unify this ..
country." Reporter Ron stegel covers a Jackson speech in Detroit. On Page 10,
photo cover eof the Benton Harbor visit.
JACKSO
ESSES DIG ITY, U ITY
busme e close plants and'
move to other countri where
unions are or not allowed
in order to "exploit cheap labor"
, there.
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By
DETROIT - With frequent
st 'nding ovations from both
White and Blac workers t
UAW Local 600, -pr 'dential
candidate J J cbon called ,
fot unity among different groups
to fight the effects of "economic
Violence" caused by large cor­
porations.
J ckso noted that "profit
go UJ' and wages go down" while
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By Ch fer IIfaID t Sr.
WASHINGTO (NNPA)­
By a voice vote, the 35-member
- House Labor and Education
Committee passsed a bill that
will raise the minimum wage
from the present $3.50, in in­
cremental stages, to a maximum
of $5.05 an hour by the year
1991.
Committee Ch irman
Augustus Ha kins, a 25-year
-Hill veteran, declared "this is no
panacea. It won't get the mil­
lion - one million Blacks - out
of poverty. It wU1 merely keep
them from starving to death."
He predicted full House pas­
sage of the bill after a Mid-April
se ion. He al 0 predicted
Senate pa age of imilar
1 measure nd that the t 0
branches of congr will iron
out differences in a join con-,
ference and send the bill to
President Ronald Reagan fo'r
passage.
Reagan, however, has
threatened to veto the m ure
and Congo Hawki d ring a
lengthy interview with the
NNPO worried that "it' no at
all certain that have the vo es
to override him." I
Congre does have the votes
to override Reagan's recent veto
of the Civil rights Re tor tion
Act, he said. This bill was p ed
overwhelmingly by congre and
is d igned to undo much of the
adverse effects of the Supreme
Court's 1984 decision in the
Grove City College (Pa.) v. Bell
decision. Thi decision nar­
rowed the scope of the historic'
civil rights bills so drastically
that civil rights leader have
been chafing under the restric­
tions every ince. (Grove City
simply permits divisions within
an institution that are not receiv­
ing federal funds to discriminate
rth impunity).
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