BY MAGGIE TROWE
DES MOINES, IA - Iowa packinghouse workers are participating in a class series called "Oppose Washington's war on Iraq!" Three workers at the IBP plant in Perry, Iowa, attended the class on February 22, at the Pathfinder Bookstore. That same afternoon in Marshalltown, Iowa, 50 miles from Des Moines, five workers from the Swift meatpacking plant there met at a restaurant to begin the same class. All were members of the amalgamated Local 1149 of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union, which organizes the Swift plant in Marshalltown and the IBP plant in Perry.

Three workers bought Nueva Internacional no. 1 to read the article by Jack Barnes entitled "The Working-Class Campaign against Imperialism and War." The class in Des Moines, attended by a total of 5 people, was in English. The Marshalltown class was held in Spanish, with the help of a little English-Spanish translation.

Maggie Trowe is a member of the UFCW Local 1149.  
 
 
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