Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1974. január-június (28. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)
1974-04-11 / 15. szám
AMERIKAS MAGYAR SZO Thursday, April, 11. 1974. 800 UE Members Picket White House Demand Price Rollback End to Oil Trust Hold-Up WASHINGTON — It was, as President Fitzgerald told a cheering crowd of UE members which overflowed the huge caucus room of a Congressional office building, “the most beautiful sight I’ve ever seen since I’ve been in this union.” The '“sight” was well over 800 women and men from UE shops in Pennsylvania and Maryland most of whom who sacrificed a day’s pay to bring their demands for a rollback of prices and for clipping the evil wings of the oil trust to the very gates of the White House with a picketline demonstration they will long cherish. From the moment they poured out of the fleet of buses which had brought them to the capital, through their visits to congressmen and senators, and, finally, at a stirring wind-up gathering which disturbed the mausoleum-like silence of the Cannon House Office building, these working people from dozens of towns and cities fas the signs they carried noted) made it plain that they were angry at what the captain of the rotten ship Watergate has done to their living standards. NEW EXPERIENCE FOR MOST / Few of those present had ever been to Washington for any cause, inquiry showed. And they were here, as Herb Leins of'the Weidemann shop, said, because “as long as the working man doesn’t protest, nothing will be changed.” Hundreds of tourists tramped through the White House gates and thousands of government office workers passed by (and the President himself must have seen and heard if he was back from his piano playing-yo-yo tour) as the protestors proclaimed the union’s demands on prices, wages and the energy holdup. “I can’t veto my grocery bill,” said a sign they carried. It was a reminder of the President who has vetoed more legislation for the good of the people than any in recent history. “Nixxon loves Exxon,” said another and read backwards it was equally true, a reminder of the millions poured into the Nixon re-election campaign fund by the oil trust and the billions in profits his policies have guaranteed them, in return. / REMINDER TO CONGRESS “We’ll Remember In November” reminded the Congress that the people have their eye on them as well as on Nixon. “Out of gas, out of cash,” summed up the problem of millions of Americans who drive long distances daily to their jobs and find their growing gas bills eating into what’s left for rent, food and clothing. A major union demand is for the establishment of a federal agency, similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in electric power, for other forms of energy. “We can’t trust the trusts with our oil,” the demonstrators insisted. Herman Jackson, a'UE member at the Globe Superior Co., in Philadelphia told the UE NEWS what the words “energy crisis” means to him. “I have to go 21 miles to work so it costs me at least $3-$4. more a week for gas.” Equally burdened by the profiteering of the oil trust is Sonny Nickerson who came representing the workers at Cutler Metals in Camden, N.J. “I have to go 25 miles to get to work and was spending $4 a week on gas, now I’m spending $7.” The cost of living, generally, was uppermost in the minds of the picketers. “I live from week to week,” Mrs. Maryann Binger of the Automatic Timing Controls shop at King of Prussia, Pa., told the UE NEWS. “If I have a dollar at the end of the week, I’m lucky and that’s no lie.” The cost of fuel for heating has struck hard at the people. As Linda Carol Black of the same shop put it: “Last year I was paying $22 for 100 gallons of oil. Now it’s about $40.” The high price and short supply of gas, she said, has interfered with her father’s work as a minister since it has stopped him from making the rounds of the churches where he preaches. B„UV«E„',RhHERE<°,N S1R1°US BUSINESS Delegates were dead serious as they picketed to protest prices, profits and fake shortages“WE WON’T STAND STILL FOR STRIKE-BREAKING’ Local 107 Bus Agt Denis Glavin and 107 delegates listen in stony silence as Rep William (R.-Pa.) tries to explain his sup- oort for measure denying food stamps to strikers. VÁMMENTES IKKA-CS9MAG0K FŐÜGYNÖKSÉGE KÜLÖNBÖZŐ CIKKEK VAGY 1KKA UTALVÁNYOK SZABAD VALASZTASRA MAGYARORSZÁGI CÍMZETTEKNEK Csehszlovákiában lakók részére is felveszünk TOZEX csomagokra rendeléseket MINDENFÉLE GYÓGYSZEREK IS RENDELHETŐK U.S. RELIEF PARCEL SER VICE Phone: LE SÜMS — 245 EAST 80fh STREET—NEW YORK, N.Y. 10021 IGAZGATÓ: M. BRACK REICH- _ Bejárat a Second Avenue-rőt 4 i
