Militant/Frank Forrestal

Selling ‘Militant’ December 16 outside Swift plant in Marshalltown, Iowa.

Some 122 workers at the Swift meatpacking plant in Marshalltown, Iowa, bought copies of the paper as they left work December 16 and 18; another five subscribed on the spot. More than 200 people in Iowa picked up copies of the paper in four days, reported Frank Forrestal, a meat packer in Des Moines.

In Austin, Twin Cities, and Worthington, Minnesota, 22 people subscribed in three days, including several who renewed their subs, said Tom Fiske, a meat packer in St. Paul. Fiske said some 150 people picked up copies of the paper in that state over the weekend.

In Colorado, 34 packinghouse workers bought the paper as they left work at an Excel plant, wrote Joel Britton, a Militant supporter from San Francisco. Another 27 people bought copies and five subscribed when Militant distributors went door-to-door in and around Greeley, where immigration agents had raided the Swift plant days before.

Jacquie Henderson, a garment worker in Houston, said workers bought 27 copies and one subscription at the gate to a Tyson plant December 17.

At the December 16 march of 10,000 in New York against the police killing of Sean Bell, 173 people picked up copies of the paper and six subscribed. Twenty-two meat workers got copies and one renewed his subscription December 20 at the entrance to the Hunts Point meat market in the Bronx.

—OLYMPIA NEWTON