Vol. 75/No. 14      April 11, 2011

Forty-six participants picked up copies of the paper; 20 signed up for subscriptions. And four decided to take advantage of the special offer to get the book Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes for half price with a subscription.

“I like the Militant because I like to know about other union struggles, not just in one area or nation but the world,” said Wade Kehler, 51, a locked-out wet corn mill operator and subscriber.

Among the workers who came in solidarity were seven members of United Steelworkers Local 7-669 fighting a lockout at Honeywell’s uranium processing plant in Metropolis, Illinois. Three of them, including local president Darrell Lillie, were already subscribers. After carefully reading the coverage on their fight in the Militant, Lillie commented that the paper is the only news source that truthfully reports on workers’ struggles. Three more steelworkers signed up for subscriptions on the spot.

“I sat down with John, a locked out 48G member, and his wife Cheryl to talk,” said Militant supporter Maggie Trowe. “When I pulled out the paper, they said, ‘Oh, we read that. It comes to our house.’ I asked if they needed to renew their subscription. ‘We did,’ they replied. ‘For a year.’”
 
 
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