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of working people. A new society will be born, based on workers' control over the workplaces and social ownership of the means of production and other facilities necessary to a modern economy. The name of this new society is Socialism. D but couldn't find the Bay Bridge! trained these scabs in a week, them to turn the steering wheel way to go left and the other way right, and keep their mouth shut forward." Now the cops began to with their batons held menacingly in front of them, driving the pickets into small groups. Smash! Another windshield was broken in the melee caused by the cops.

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"Do you have a court order?" several strikers challenged. "This is a legal piciot. You have no right to make us move."

"Just keep walking!" the cops commanded.

When I left to go to work, about a hundred angry workers were still assembled in pockets on the sidewalks. Members of the longshoremen's union (ILWU), the Municipal bus drivers in the IWU, the Retail Clerks, and the Hotel and Restaurant workers were there. Several strikers thanked me for helping walk the picket line. "There's more here than meets the eye," one man told me. "Greyhound is a multibilliondollar corporation • and the other big campanies are looking for Greyhound to take the lead in breaking the labor movement. First PATOO, then what doing to the copper miners, "And good luck to you! luck to you!" they shouted back as I left. D They told this to go to go(continued from page 10: “International VIEWPOINT”)The meeting was also addressed by Jack Henning, head of the 1.5 million member California Labor Federation, who reported on the AFL-CIO position favoring a national Greyhound boycott, and ber Teamster Joint Council. Mack indicated that, like their Teamster brothers and sisters in Philadelphia who helped stop Greyhound buses there, local Teamsters were more than willing "to find creative ways to assist the Greyhound strikers."

Ihe meeting was chaired by Walter Johnson, president of the San Francisco Department Store Employees, Local 1100. "We may have to mobilize another 70,000 workers in the streets and on the picket lines like we did last year at our solidarity rally," said Johnson.

Don Harmon, a rank-and-file member of Local 1100 assigned by his union to work full-time to help coordinate solidarity activities, presented the support committee's initial plans of action. These included the December 3 mass rally and march to the picket line, regular union mobilizations to aid the strikers, and mass leafleting.

Harmon evoked an enthusiastic round of applause from the crowd when he said, "This is a mad dog company we're facing • and we need real labor solidarity to leash it up. "D

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