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By CLAUDETTE BÉGIN OAKLAND, Calif.— "Someone had tried to kill us!" Darryl Cherney told reporters in a telephone interview from jail. Cherney and Judi Bari, two organizers from the Earth First! environmental group, were injured on May 24 by an anti-personnel bomb planted behind the driver's seat of their car.
The bomb exploded here in Oakland while the two environmentalists were on their way to a meeting at the University of Santa Cruz to recruit students into the struggle to save the old-growth redwood forests from the timber corporations that are leveling them.
Police and FBI agents responded to the bombing by ransacking the offices of peace and environmental groups and charging the victims with having made the bomb themselves.
Daniel Barron, Earth First! organizer in San Francisco, told Socialist Action that Judi Bari was singled out for attack because of her success at drawing lumber workers into the struggle. She had reported several death threats against her in recent months. As we go to press, Bari lies under police guard at Highland Hospital with a fractured pelvis.
Cherney was jailed as soon as he was released from the hospital and then interrogated by the FBI for 13 hours without food or drink. Each time the Earth First!
(continued on page 18) unionists at Greyhound terminals around the country. It is common to find striking workers from Eastern Airlines or other workers currently or recently on strike on the picket line.
Greyhound ups the ante In response to the growing determination of the embattled strikers and their supporters in the labor movement to win a decent contract, Greyhound has upped the ante in its union-busting demands.
Currey's latest demands call on the union to commit suicide as a labor organization. The proposed pact calls for a six-year contract with no pay increases in the first four years and 3 percent hikes in the last two years; elimination of 4500 union jobs; pay cuts for drivers of up to $7000 a year; no pensions for workers hired after 1983; and job protection for all scabs.
The strikers have already suffered major (continued on page 6, in “Greyhound workers and supporters rally in Boston”)