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Above, John Benson, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Georgia, went to Metropolis, Illinois, Oct. 11-12 to join rally in support of uranium workers locked out by Honeywell and talk with workers in the area. Benson met Leonard Childress, a retired worker who spent 20 years in auto and steel plants in Chicago, and his daughter Anne Marie when he visited their neighborhood. “Somebody’s greedy,” Childress told Benson. “I think it’s probably Honeywell.”
Inset, John Studer, left, SWP candidate for governor of New York, spoke with Derwin Behling, a member of Transport Workers Union Local 101 at Brooklyn, N.Y., rally Oct. 9 organized by union against National Grid gas company’s demands for five-year wage freeze and jump in health care costs.
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