Million Worker March leader honored

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