Rally supports Chi. Tribune strikers, recalls Haymarket
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SOLIDARITY CITY Come help build our tent city in Austin, Minnesota and join us for a week SOCIALIST ACTION JUNE 1986 5 Hormel) peaceful demonstrations and picketing at the Hormel plant SUNDAY, JUNE 22 THROUGH SATURDAY, JUNE 28 FAMILIES BACK! ¡UNIONS BOYCOTT HORMEL NOW LOCAL ON STRIKE At! x. 5.8 CHICAGO-One thousand striking pressmen, printers, mailers, and their supporters rallied under the Chicago Tribune office tower here on May 4. Called by the striking workers' Unity Committee, the rally served to protest the union-busting conduct of the Tribune and to com -memorate the 100th anniversary of the Haymarket bombing.
Speaking as a strike supporter and labor historian, Professor Bill Adelman of the University of Illinois Circle Campus pointed out that the Tribune has histo -rically been in the forefront of the employers' attacks on the workers' standard of living.
Today it is one of the companies leading the employers' takeback and concessions campaign. On May 4, 1886, using the bombing as an excuse, the Chicago Tribune helped organize a successful witch hunt against organizers of the eighthour-day movement.
Jim Guyette, president of striking UFCW Local P-9 in Austin, Minn., delivered a brief message of solidarity and congratulated the Tribune strikers for their support of Local P-9. Additional speakers were Robert Healy, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor; Georgia Demarest Lloyd, a granddaughter of one of the Tribune's cofounders; and Marsha Mickens of the Detroit bakery workers Following the rally at the Tribune DONT BUY IT CHICA offices, the Unity Committee led a march through the Chicago streets to a markerless, vacant corner lot, which was approximately where the Haymarket bombing occurred. Here another rally was held, sponsored by the Haymarket Centennial Committee. Among the additional speakers were Dennis Brutus, an exiled South African. Entertainment was provided by the Sechaba Players, a Black South African dance troupe.
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