Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1981. július-december (35. évfolyam, 27-50. szám)
1981-08-27 / 32. szám
AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZÓ Thursday, Aug. 27. 1981. 8. HuncnRinn nmcRicnns support Sándor Petőfi NATIONAL SONG Sándor Petőfi, the greatest and most famous poet of the Hungarian people, led his nation’s resistance to the Habsburg tyranny in the 1848-49 war of liberation. He died, at the age of 26, on the battlefield on July 31, 1849. Below we publish two stanzas from his most famous poem which triggered ’ the outbreak of the revolution on March 15, 1848. MARCH 15, 1848 Rise, Magyar, ‘tis the country’s call! The time has come, say one and all ! Shall we be slaves, shall we be free? For by the Magyar’s God above We truly swear, We truly swear, the tyrant’s yoke No more to bear! The sword is brighter than the chain, Men cannot nobler gems attain; And yet the chain we wore, oh, shame! Unsheath the sword of ancient fame! For by the Magyar’s God above We truly swear, We truly swear the tyrants yoke No more to bear! /Translated by William N. Loew/ Steven Wallaert, president of PATCO Local 291, Newport News and Norfolk, Va., is led from Alexandria, Va. court in chains by federal marshals after he was sentenced to 60 days in jail for contempt of court. A ngered by President Reagan’s assertion that he has a “mandate" for his huge budget cuts, the AFL-CIO has scheduled a mass march on Washington, D.C. Sept. 19 to demonstrate just the opposite — a popular outcry against the Administration's slaughter of worker-oriented programs. Joining with the more than 100 AFL-CIO unions will be marchers from the UAW (now reaffiliated with the 14-million-member labor federation), the NAACP, the National Women’s Political Caucus, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and scores of other organizations. The UAW is marshalling all-out support for the Sept. 19 event, billed as “Solidarity Day." It is the first national demonstration called by the AFL-CIO since 1975, and it may rival the 1963 equal rights march on Washington and the major anti-war rallies in size and importance. Massing against Reagan’s slashing of social and economic programs that workers, minorities, women, senior citizens, and young Americans took years to build, the marchers will demand “Jobs and Justice." Solidarity Day, says the AFL-CIO Executive Council, is ‘‘the most effective way of responding to the Reagan Administration’s claim that it has a mandate to reverse the nation's commitment to social and economic justice." Impetus for the event has come from the grassroots of the labor movement. Rank-andNumerous allied organizations, including major civil rights, senior citizens, civic and community groups, are mobilizing their constituencies for this broad coalition effort. Such a broad demonstration will bring a strong message to Washington that labor and its allies will firmly resist government rich man policies that place the greatest burden for allegedly curing the nation’s economic ills, including inflation and taxation, on the backs of the working people, who already suffer the most from these problems. file workers urged their local leaders to press for a national demonstration, and the momentum kept building up through regional labor bodies to the AFL-CIO Executive Council. The Sept. 19 march represents a genuine groundswell of protest by those who create this country’s wealth against those who harvest and control it. S ays AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, “The Reagan budget constitutes the mostly costly roll of the dice ever proposed for this nation. On the line are the living standards of millions of working Americans, the unemployed, and the poor. The economic gamble is with the well-being of those who can ill afford to gamble in order to provide a sure winner for the wealthy who are not asked to take any of the risk.” While many participating unions will focus their demands exclusively on the budget cuts, others will attack the whole budgetary process which has fattened funds for the Export-Import Bank, the Clinch River “breeder” nuclear reactor, and military hardware while cutting domestic programs to ribbons. “We don’t believe these are really budget cuts,” says a spokesperson for the International Association of Machinists. “They’re a transfer of money from social services to the military services." □ DEDICATED to the success of Solidarity Day bv MAGYAR SZÓ, HUNGARIAN WORD 13o E 16 St. New York,NY 10003. Fighting newspaper of trade union oriented Americans of Hungarian descent for 80 years. Publishes English language supplement Write for free sample copy. Exposing Reagan’s “Mandate”: AFL-CIO CALLS MASS MARCH ON SEPT. 19 SÓÜmMTS- » PAM A :j iwj jgg g| «4 ^ i I *»3 ftBBv-
