Vol. 78/No. 45 December 15, 2014
“United Airlines held a program to celebrate a national safety award given to the San Francisco facility,” she wrote. “Most of the workers in my department consider it a farce and did not attend.”
Another $377.75 was received from Dave Ferguson, a Yamaha worker in Newnan, Georgia, and $29.87 from “profit sharing” from Wendy Banen, a Home Depot worker in New York. Contributions from production, safety and other “bonuses” from the bosses — designed to bribe workers to accept concessions, speedup and wage cuts — are referred to as “blood money” by supporters of the communist movement who turn them over to the party’s Capital Fund. These steady blood money contributions are an important political foundation for the fund, which helps finance the party’s long-range work. To contribute, see page 8 for a Militant distributor near you.
— BRIAN WILLIAMS