Scab kills union picket

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Dec. 5 - Ignoring the flashing red traffic light outside the Zanesville, Ohio Holiday Inn parking lot, scab driver-trainee Lewis Harris drove his Greyhound bus over Ray Phillips, a picketing union driver.

As Phillips' legs were crushed beneath the wheels, the instructor accompanying Harris ordered the bus forward. In full view of about a hundred ATU members, the bus continued, its rear wheels crushing Phillips' skull, killing him instantly. Eyewitnesses said his brains were spread on the pavement. The bus, pausing momentarily, continued on its way.

Zanesville Times Recorder journalist Dan Liggett, the only media person witness to the murder, said pointblank that the scab bus did not stop.

No charges have been filed against either Harris or the scab instructor by Zanesville police who, since the beginning of the strike, have been escorting scab training • buses through the area. The police did arrest one striker, charging him with throwing a rock.

Anticipating national repercussions, Greyhound suspended operations in Zanesville, the center of its national scab driver-training operation. AccordCops attack S.F. pickets [The following account was given to Socialist Action by a MUNI bus driver (MNI is the San Francisco public transit systen) who participated in the first day of confrontation between striking Greyhound workers, both bus drivers and office workers, and Greyhound Lines, Inc., in San Francisco on November 17. The Greyhound bosses had made their first trial run moving scabdriven buses through picket lines in their union-busting campaign.] San Francisco -- When I arrived, the police were setting up metal barricades along the street to separate the strikers from the scab buses. "Is this East Berlin?" one striker shouted. Ine po…ice started i herding the strıkers be3 Socialist Action December 1983 ing to been wi the sch latest t In co assisted hound is of the the lie voked by Within Greyhound, all personnel have tharawn pending the outcome of eduled December 20 vote on the ake-away contract proposal. njunction with local police and by national news media, Greyorchestrating a major cover-up Phillips murder, centering on that it was an accident pro-union pickets. hours of Phillips' murder, Ama gama tea iransıt union activists issued a call for union drivers and trade unionists in the region to assemble in Zanesville for a December 6 memorial rally and march to the scene of the killing. Jerry Gordon, an organizer for the United Food and Commercial Workers in the region, said that a central rally theme would be, "'The whole country country is watching. Arrest the killer scabs."

Busloads of ATU members were set to arrive from Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Charleston, Richmond, Indianapolis, and other Midwest and Eastern Eastern cities. Contingents from AFL-CIO and Teamster locals there are also expected. Five hundred Cleveland area ATU Greyhound strikers were set to leave for Zanesville on Tuesday morning, December 6. O hind the barricades. "It seems like Poland!" another striker responded. "South Africa!" said anoth er. "NO, man," a Black baggage clerk said, "This is America! We've got to learn that police are strikebreakers ri ght here in America."

The roar of a bus could be heard. The police lined up in formation protect it. "Scab! Traitor!" the strikers yelled. After the bus sped into Seventh Street, away from the pickets, the windshield was smashed. (Now the damaged coach would have to pull back into the yard several blocks away.) A police van came up, screeching to a halt. The cops picked a man from the crowd at random, and pushed him into the van. "Let him go!" the workers chanted company alone. Chairman John Teets, who handled breaking the Armour strike, manages to bring home over $600,000 per year, and President Frank Nageotte made $453,000 last year.

The AFL-CIO has called a national and solidarity rall ies and 1 around the country.

The New York City Labor Council . ran spot radio announcements urging workers to join the picket lines and to come to a rally held on November 23. More than 3,000 showed up.

In Minneapolis, Ford workers joined the Greyhound picket line after working 10-hour shift. They were joined by other workers--including unionists from the United Transportation Union, International Association of Machinists, Communications Workers of America, United Electrical Workers, and Brotherhood of Airline and Railway Clerks-about 500 in all.

In Philadelphia 800 ATU supporters stopped the buses. ATU workers were joined by members of the Teamsters, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers, and other unions. At Penn station in Newark, New Jersey, ATU pickets were joined by auto workers community supporters.

Postal workers in • Dallas refused to deliver mail to Greyhound, saying they will not cross the picket line. Dallas strikers were joined on the line by Ron May, former leader of the Professional Airline Traffic Controllers Organization (PATOO).

In Phoenix, copper miners, who have been on strike for months against Phelps-Dodge, joined forces with Greyhound strikers. In San Francisco (see accompanying article) a Strike Support Committee has been formed by labor officials and community people. They are calling for a mass rally on December 3 at San Francisco Civic Center. Painters Local 4 in San Francisco voted to give $1,000 now and $200 per month to the strike as long as it lasts. O Now part of the picket line ran down toward Mission Street, where two empty scab buses were attempting to enter the bus from Dakland, IP passengers. joked. terminal to pick "'The "Probably left Oakland three hours ago, Continued on page 11

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