Vol. 77/No. 7      February 25, 2013

Blood money donations from holiday bonuses keep coming in to the Socialist Workers Party Capital Fund.

“This is a $25 gift card my boss gave me for showing up on a Saturday, even though I was told it was compulsory,” wrote Dean Hazlewood in Miami in a note with his check. “At first he gave me a card for $50. Five minutes later I heard him yelling about something. When he started asking people how much the card he had given them was worth and everyone said $25, I realize what had happened. He had given me his card.”

Hazlewood works as a temp in a plant that prints advertising on everything from pens to coffee mugs.

Carole Lesnick, Jeff Powers, Rashaad Ali and Willie Cotton in San Francisco sent in a check for $76, Christmas bonuses from Gate Gourmet where they all work.

“At the same time as we got this, contract negotiations are taking place and the bosses propose no wage increase, a 25 percent hike in health insurance premiums out of workers’ pockets and stricter work rules,” Lesnick wrote.

Blood money is a term used to describe so-called bonus payments and other bribes from bosses pressing workers to accept speedup, wage cuts, concession contracts and dangerous working conditions. Communist workers turn them over to the SWP Capital Fund to finance long-range work of the party.

To make a blood money contribution, contact Militant distributors listed on page 8.

—EMMA JOHNSON  
 
 
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