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CLEVELAND-On Oct. I1, more than 800 people crowded into the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 880 hall here. They carried signs distributed by the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) demanding an end to apartheid, freedom for political prisoners, and a free South Africa.

The rally was endorsed by the Cleveland Federation of Labor, many local unions, and top area labor officials. Community organizations and churches actively participated in building the rally.

The Cleveland City Council and Cuyahoga County Commissioners both passed resolutions declaring Oct. 11 Anti-Apartheid Day. Endorsements also came in from many public officials, including both U.S. senators and all area congressmen.

Three large banners expressed the theme of the rally: End All United States Ties to Apartheid; Free Nelson Mandela and All South African Political ogy to South Africa, reimposing the ban on sales to the South African police, a ban on all public and private loans to South Africa, and total divestment.

Davis announced plans to develop a labor union steering committee composed of area labor leaders to cripple the greater Cleveland money supply to South Africa.

Miners' leader speaks

Nomonde Ngubo, a co-founder of the South African National Union of Mineworkers, and an international staff representative of the United Mine Workers (UMW), brought home the meaning of the facts and figures the other speakers had presented by giving a moving personal account of what it was like to grow up Black in South Africa. She described a police raid on her house when she was four years old, the effects of a Bantu education, and the job discrimination she encountered.

Ngubo described the UMW's strike against A.T. Massey, adding that the multinational corporations that own A.T. Massey have large investments in South Africa. She explained that apartheid hurts workers in the United States as well as South Africa.

She said, "Until we stop injustice in South Africa, we'll have injustice in America. Companies are trying to drag down the standard of living of the American workers. Elementary solidarity requires that we help the workers on the bottom. The only thing these corporations understand is economic pressure. We must stop the importation of coal and all other products produced under slave labor."

UFCW International Vice President Willie Baker emphasized that South Africa has the most repressive government on the face of the earth. Baker said, "Apartheid reminds us of what life would be like in a state penitentiary except in South Africa every sentence is for life."

Other speakers were Joe Madzelonka, president of UFCW Local 880; Mylion Waite, associate director of the Greater Cleveland Interchurch Council and director of the Cleveland Free South Africa Coalition; Shuping Coapoge, member of the African National Congress United Nations Mission; Pauline Tarver, executive director of the Cleveland NAACP; Stanley Tolliver, member of the Cleveland Board of Education; Don Morris, executive assistant of the Cleveland Urban League; and Diane Underwood, president of the Cleveland National Organization for Women.