Socialist Workers campaign supporter Marty Ressler (left) collects signatures June 25 outside Del Monte plant in Pittsburgh to put SWP mayoral candidate Jay Ressler on the ballot. More than a dozen workers signed the petition that day. Some 600 workers, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers, are employed at this former Heinz plant. Socialists collected nearly 2,300 signatures to put Ressler on the ballot June 18-25, the first week of petitioning. Campaign supporters are reaching out broadly in the region, including among coal miners. A recent team sold the Militant at the Shoemaker mine in West Virginia.
 
 
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