Vol. 71/No. 14      April 9, 2007

The socialist candidate was certified for the ballot in a special May 12 election after paying a $500 filing fee.

Dutrow, 62, a meat packer at the Tyson plant here, recently returned from a solidarity trip to Cactus, Texas, where he and others met with workers from the Swift meatpacking plant and in local neighborhoods. Cactus was one of the cities targeted nationwide by Homeland Security cops in their December 12 immigration raids at several Swift plants.

Dutrow noted that “most Swift workers and others who live in Cactus expressed solidarity with those arrested and were outraged at the migra cops. This is far from the picture you get from the main newspapers, which say these people are intimidated or totally divided by the raid. Many workers were eager to talk to us about what had happened.”

At the March 16 campaign launching here, Dutrow said, “Our campaign demands a stop to the raids and deportations. Drop the ‘identity theft’ and other charges against these workers. Fighting for immediate legalization of immigrants is in the interest of all working people. It’s a central part of fighting for unity within our class in order to advance struggles by workers to organize unions and to use union power to effectively resist the bosses’ attacks on wages, working conditions, dignity, and safety on the job.”

The Socialist Workers campaign is also the only campaign calling for an immediate, unconditional withdrawal of U.S. and other “coalition” troops from Afghanistan and Iraq and all the theaters of imperialism’s “war on terror,” and U.S. hands off Cuba and Venezuela.  
 
 
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