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C F AlRN S B:ILL
Th Tational Labor Reletions ct of 1935
(Wagner Act) guaranteed the right to strike to
worker in the U .S. The Act created a balance of
power between labor and management during labor
disputes. Over the last decade, there has been a
wholesale attack on this guarantee. Corporation
have penalized employees who withhold their labor
as part of the collective bargaining proces by
permanently replacing them. Employers, using a
legal technicality creating a distinction b tw en
"permanently replacing" and "di charging"
workers. have replaced thousands of striking
work r. The threat of being "permanently
replaced" i a constant concern for working women
and men ho seek a fair contract and just treatment
Every ti me worker currently exercise their right
to strike. they risk loosing their jobs and jeopardize
their families' economic security. If employ rs
have the right to permanently replace workers who
strike. there is. in effect. no right to strike. The
errective right to trike mu t be protected!
The Workplace Fairness Bill, S.55, would
restore this basic right. S.55 prohibits the
p rrn anent replacement of striking employee. It
also bars employers from giving pecial treatment
and b nefits to employees who cross the picket
line and r turn to work. The House has already
pas d such a Bill. S.55 comes b fore the enate
next week. A enate majority will upport this
Bill if it is allowed to com to a vote. A small
minorit .. mainly Republican . but orne outhern
Democrats as well, are exp cted to filibu ter the
measure. [The filibuster is a Senate rule that
allow s nators to talk as long as they wish in
order to stop a vote on pending legislation.] If the
fili buster is succes ful ther will be no. vot on
S.S5, and all workers will continue to uffer und r
an unfair collective bargaining process. The NR
is corn m itted to passing S.SS and to breaking a
filibu ter in order to allow a vote. Help restor
ju tice in th workplace. Call your nators today.
202-224-3121. and urge them to support clotur -­
i.e., th cut-off of a filibust r if one occurs-sand to
vote "yes" on S.SS, the Workplace Fairne s Bill.
nator specifically target d for contact on thi
i u are David Pryor (O-AK), Dale Bumper (O­
AK). David Duren rger (Rl'v1N), Sam unn (0-
OA . Bill oh n (R-ME). James J ffords (R-VT).
John hafee (R-RI), Harlan Mathews (0-'[1\;).
DAvid Ror n CD-O 1 and Fritz Hollinzs (D-SC).
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PHIL • POLICE HOT
and killed fleeing MOVE omen
and children.forced others back
into a burning 'building, and
stood by while several blocks of
West Philadelphia hom were
consumed by flaJp .
Who are the real monsters?
Th sam FOP that inciner-
When the roll is called up yon­
der - or down yonder - the
name of Richard Nixon will ap­
pear at th top of th list of those
who designed today's Republi­
can Party and th who fought
to destroy th gains won by
Thurgood Ma hall.
The name of Nixon's game in
and after th 1968 and 1972
Presidential elections was "the
South rn Strategy." He was able
to "out-Wallace" George Wallace
enough to convert many die­
hard gregationists, Ku �ux
thinkers and other political con­
servatives (enemies of equality
for Blacks) to his cause and twice
win the presidency. Reaganused
Nixon's hate-mongering strate-
gi .
Nixon's political career paral­
lels mod rn gains in civil rights.
Thes gains were pro from
Nixon and gan by Congress
nd by tn U.S. Suprem Court.
Th e gains d rv a fresh
look:
1954: U.S. Supreme Court
rules that "s p rate but equal"
public schools are "inherently
unequal" and unconstitutio 1.
1955: Sup m Court or-
de that d tion of public
n "with II deli r-
that
t "right" of
ntation, that in n­
tionally d ied me of my "right"
to an impartial jwy 'Of my pee ,
that teered m to "trial- before
a judge 0 a life member
of the FOP and known a
"prosecutor' dream"; that de­
nied me the right to emmine
and/or croes-exam.ine 't ,
and that t be 0 r a dec­
ade to introduce evidence of my
Black Panther Party member-
hip and statements (said to be
"protected" under the 1st
Amendment' "guarantee" of
"free" association and "free"
speech) and used these to argue
for a death sentence - these are
the self-same forces that sue-
fully censored m from the
By -Jarnes E. Alsbrook
• 1957: Congress passes th
first civil rights law since Recon­
struction. This law created (a)
th Commission on Civil Rights
to investigate civil rights viola­
tions and (b) the Civil Rights
Di vi ion of th Justice Depart­
m nt to enforce civil rights laws
and regulations.
1960: Congress passes law
providing referees to assist
Southern Blacks in registering
to vote.
1964:Con� Civil
Righ Act of 1964, outlawing
di crimination in public places,
establishing Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, and
guaranteeing equal voting
rights to Blacks.
1964: Twenty-fourth
Am ndment ratified. It outla
poll es.
1965: Congress passes Vot­
ing Rights Act which outla lit­
eracy and other
voter-registration r traints. By
1968, half of eligible Bla vot­
ers in the South were registered.
1967: P ident Johnson
appoint d National AaV) ory
Com . ion on Civil Disord
Ext iv inv ti tion ihow
tha r th b i
iti .
Civil Rights Act of 1968, outlaw­
ing housing discrimination and
harassment of civil rights work­
ers.
• 1969: U.S. Supreme Court
orders chools to d gregate "at
once."
• 1972: Congress passes
Equal Employment Opportu­
nity Act. that allows preferential
hiring and promotion of women
and minoriti .
1979: U.S. Supreme Court
in case of United States v. Web­
ber, supports affirmative ction
1986: U.S. Supreme Court
upholds affirmative action hir­
ing quotas that permit hiring of
women and minoriti ,as rem­
edy for past discrimination.
1990: U.S. Supreme Court
upholds affinnativ action help­
ing minoriti get bro dcasting
licenses in vie of unremedied
prior bias.
1990: Presid nt Bush ve­
toes law requiring employers to
show non-discrimination in hir­
ing. H . d the law would ult
in quo
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genteel listeners of NPR' All
Thi.1168 (that the police will al­
low) Considered.
They have demonstrated how
the media is mastered by police
po r, and ho the 1st Amend­
ment, once again, is but a dead
letter.
They have made my point -
nd I hope YOUJ'8.
over the rights of others and
compromised himself to win
elections.
Records show he used misrep­
resentation and underhanded
tactics to politically damage
JenyVoorhies in 1946; Helen G.
Douglass for Congress in 1950;
Earl Warren in 1952; and Pat
Brown, California Governor, in
1962.
ARREN W 0 highly re-
garded despite Nixon that Presi­
dent Eisenhower named him
Chief Justice of the U.S. Su­
preme Court in 1953.
Warren heard Thurgood Mar­
shall's argument for public
school integration and led the
Court to a unanimou d cision in
the historic 1954 of Brown
v. Topeka. This deci ion set th
rationale and began momentum
toward later civil right-Ia
providing racial equality in vot­
ing, employment, public accom­
modations, housing and oth r
matters Ii ted above.