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Million Worker March leader honored
Published Apr 6, 2005 4:28 PM
The “real” Clarence Thomas (at podium), co-chair of the Oct. 17
Million Worker March and a leader of the International Longshore Workers Union
Local 10 in San Francisco, gives the keynote address at the Black Workers for
Justice 22nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Support for Labor Banquet in
Raleigh, N.C., April 2.
BWFJ played a leadership role in building and
supporting the MWM rally held last fall at the Lincoln Memorial, which called
for creating an independent workers’ movement.
The BWFJ organizes
campaigns alongside United Electrical Local 150 to win long-denied
collective-bargaining rights for all workers in North Carolina.
Two
hundred BWFJ members and supporters from around the country attended the
banquet/meeting held at the North Carolina Association of Educators
Building.
Stay tuned for more coverage on this important event in Workers
World newspaper.
—Story and photo by Monica Moorehead
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