Union support builds for Shell Oil boycott
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By ANTONIO DELEON and LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The United Food and Commercial Workers hosted a labor speakout against apartheid here on Feb. 2. Nomonde Ngubo, an exiled South African trade unionist, informed the crowd of 150 of conditions facing Black workers in her country. Nomonde Ngubo helped found the South African National Union of Mineworkers and is now on staff for the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), heading up their campaign for a free South Africa.
Louisville Central Labor Council Vice President Ron Harch chaired the meeting, which brought the area's Black and labor movements together for the first time in a long time. The city of Louisville welcomed Ms. Ngubo with honorary citizenship. In accepting, she noted that these were the first citizenship papers she had ever received, because South African citizenship is denied to Blacks.
Ngubo called on those who oppose the apartheid system to boycott Shell Oil, the world's second-largest petroleum cor -poration. Shell has extensive interests in coal mines and steel plants in South Africa. In addition, Shell supplies oil and other energy needs to the South African gov -ernment.
The international boycott of Shell coincides with the UMW fight against the Shell-owned A. T. Massey Coal Co.
The February issue of the UMW Journal states: "Profits made in South Africa can finance corporate attacks on UMWA miners. One reason that a company like Royal Dutch/Shell, co-owner of A. T. Massey Coal Co., can afford to put UMWA members on strike and out of work for a year and a half is the high profits it makes from its oil, coal and chemical operations in South Africa."
In 1984 only two Massey CLEVELAND-Following last year's successful October 11 anti-apartheid rally here, members of labor, Black, women's, religious, and community organizations met to form the Northeast Ohio Anti-Apartheid Committee (NOAC).
NOAC's coordinating committee includes representatives from the United Auto Workers (UAW); American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME); Service Employees Inter -national Union (SEIU); Newspaper Guild; Painters; Postal Workers; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); Urban League; Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
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