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In the most important labour action yet taken on El Salvador, West Coast Longshoremen have voted to indefinitely boycott all military cargo to EI Salvador.
The ILWU,, representing 15,000 dockers on the coast, voted to start the boycott on December 23 and at press time were planning a labour rally at their hall in San Francisco to announce the action.
At the same time, many unions are now demanding an end to US intervention and military support for the reactionary regime, along with denunciation of the CIA AFL-CIO tie in El Salvador.
The CIA, through the AFL-CIO American Institute of Free Labour Development, has supported the dictatorship and collaborated with the capitalists in El Salvador to crush the independence of the unions.
AFT Local 957 in San Jose, along with the Santa Clara County Central Labour Council have both denounced the AIFLD and demanded a break from the AIFLD operation in Latin America.
They have also demanded an answer from Lane Kirkland on his role in this CIA front organisation. San Francisco Hotel and Restaurant Workers Local 2 have also joined with the Santa Clara locals in condemning the AIFLD.
The secretary of the AIFLD Peter Grace of the Grace Company, not only busts unions in Latin America with the support of Kirkland, but operates a string of non-union restaurants on the West Coast.
Far West Industries, owned by Grace, operates Cocos and many other non-union restaurants in the area, yet Kirkland has yet to make a peep about his pal on the AIFLD.
On November 29 the Socialist League, along with other organisations, participated in a march and rally called by BPR to protest the murder in El Salvador of seven leaders of the Popular Democratic Revolutionary Front.
The march began at 24th and Mission in San Francisco and was welcomed and supported by the people of the neighbourhoods of the Mission! District.
Labor News calls. on its! readers to take action in their own unions to get the US out of : El Salvador and expose the Kirkland/AIFLD/CIA connec-: tion.
Reprinted from Labor News, paper of the Socialist League (DC), in the USA. the United Nations . arms embargo on South Africa has so clearly demonstrated, pious protestations from the bourgeoisie, its governments and agents mean nothing when profits and the protection of profits are concerned.
Behind its anti-apartheid postures, the international bourgeoisie has a very real political and economic interest in the political control and continued exploitation of black workers.
Arms and related supplies will only be stopped from reaching the South African regime through the independent black-