Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1982. január-június (36. évfolyam, 1-25. szám)

1982-03-04 / 9. szám

2. AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZÓ Thursday, March 4. 1982. WELCOME SIGHS It is not new anymore that the economy of our country is in deep trouble. If the entire economy is in a recession, the auto­industry is in a depression. More than 250.000 auto­workers lost their iob per­manently. With the pas­sing of each day more and more factories are being closed, more and morfe workers lose their jobs. The owners of the Ge­neral Motors Company wish to utilize these con­ditions to lower the wages and worsen working conditions of their employees. They explain this desire by saying that anto-workers in the USA are getting 8-10 dollars more per hour than the Japanese workers. So they have the audaci­ty to demand that GM workers accept a $ 5 - reduc­tion in their hourly wage. Negotiations were going on between the GM management and the representatives of the orga­nized auto-workers. During these negotiations the leaders of the UAW,with Douglas Fraser president and others, tried to reach an understanding that sa­vings derived from concessions of the workers be used to reduce the price of the cars and at the same time GM should give assurances to safeguard the jobs of those still employed and rehire those UAW President ( Douglas Fraser laid off as the sale of cars improve. The negotiations broke down without reaching agreement. Everything indicated that the leaders of the Union were ready and willing to give substantial concessions. Before the final breakdown of negotia­tions at a top Committee meeting, 48 % of the members of the Committee voiced the opinion of their members that THEY ARE OPPOSED TO ANY CONCESSIONS WHATSOEVER. The workers in Detroit were prepared to de­monstrate in front of the hotel where the negotia­tions were supposed 1 to take place but - hearing of this - the Union leaders changed the location of the meeting to Chicago. While negotiations were going on, locals in diffe­rent parts of the country met and voiced their op­position to the concessions. Larry Espinosa of UAW Local 719, said: “GM is not coming up with any concessions. The company is not negotiating in good faith.” There is visible dissatisfaction among the mem­bers all over the country. They are opposed to wage cuts and other “concessions” and are of the opinion that management is responsible for the state of the industry and the remedy of correcting the situation should be found not by reducing wages but by mo­dernizing the production, producing cars that are as good, or better than the iapanese and german cars, at a price that is within the reach of the pub­lic. J.L. QUOTATIONS FROM THE “CHURCHMAN” Ever since Mr. Reagan stated that he was deter­mined that the United States win the arms race, I have been curious as to what, exactly, will happen when we win it. How will we know that America has won? What will be the precise signal telling us that we have triumphed? ... What will be different after we know we are the confirmed winner? Will we be assured that the Russians, as losers, will not be able to devastate America? I doubt it... I thinkl can determine how to tell that we have won: all of us will be broke, and the economy will be in ruins. Herbert M. Engel, in the N Y Times Nothing in human history is more obscene than the cool discussions of competing nuclear strategies by apocalyptic game-players... The government is betting the life of this society on the rational res­ponse of the enemy’s leaders to the fact of our re­taliatory capacity... It is not asked why, if states­men can be intelligent enough to fear apocalyptic force, they are not intelligent enough to avoid stockpiling it beyond any conceivable rational use... At year’s end, any inventory of our assets must be­gin with the understanding that the freedom and security of the American people, or any people for that matter, rests on the control of force and not the use of force. The time has come to stop throw­ing billions of dollars at problems and to start thin­king about the genuine requirements of a world without war. Norman Cousins, Saturday Review let us learn Hungarian We’re oathe Wrong Side in El Salvador Hey, Asner. What gives you and your actor friends the right to speak out about United States foreign policy? Who do you think you are? • I think that it’s not only a right but an obligation for every responsible citizen to speak out when our Govern­ment is acting in ways we believe are wrong. That's why I went to our nation’s capital last Monday — because the situation in El Salvador is rapidly becoming another Vietnam War, and I want to prevent that from happening. A full-scale war is now raging in that Central American country, and every day the involvement of the United States Government escalates. Tragically, we’re on the wrong side once again. And once again, we’re spending hun­dreds of millions of dollars propping up an undeserving military junta, while we close health clinics and day­care centers here in the United States. It makes no sense to me for the United States to get into another need­less nightmare. And I will not sit back quietly and witness a repeat performance of an­other tragedy that the United States Congress doesn’t vote for and that the American people don’t • want. I’m working hard to leant more about what’s happening in El Salva­dor, and asking everyone I know to be­come better informed. For example, did you know that: • more than half the people of El Salvador subsist on an income of less than $10 per month per capita? • nearly 50 percent of the children in El Salvador die before the age of 5? By Edward Asner • there are fewer than 3 doctors for every 10,000 people? • unemployment in El Salvador today is more than 40 percent? • and 2 percent of the population owns 60 percent of the land? We all need to learn more of what’s happening there, but you don’t have to be a historian or a political scientist to know that El Salvador will become an­other Vietnam War if we don’t act now. Elections for a constituent assembly are set to take place in El Salvador next month, but there is no reason to believe they will be more genuine than the highly touted election we promoted in Vietnam that kept Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky in power. Elections in El Salvador have been nothing but fradulent for decades. Why should anyone believe that this election will be any different? The Government in El Salvador is a dictatorship at war with its own peo­ple. 7 More 30,000 people have been killed by the military in the last two years. That’s one out of every 150 people in the population. If that were happening, here in the United States, it would mean a million and a half people dead! Torture and brutality are common­place in El Salvador, and anybody who claims that concerted efforts to pro­tect human rights are being made is either ill-informed or not telling the truth. What’s happening in El Salvador is more than tragic — it’s sickening, in­decent, inhumane — and it’s got to be stopped. The truth is that once again a Gov- emment, not worthy of one United States penny, is being kept alive by' million of our tax dollars. Without United States military and economic aid, the junta in El Salvador could not survive, and the suffering of the Salvadoran people could end. It is the responsibility of every con­cerned citizen to stay informed and speak out in the name of decency when our Government’s foreign policy is wrong. Wfe must say: “No, that won’t be done again in my name. No, that's not how I want my tax dollars used.” It is after all what George Washing­ton and the Founding Fathers of our Government intended for us to do. Let us each speak up now. Let us each tell our representatives that if they want to be re-elected in November, they’d better stop United States intervention in El Salvador now. This week, we observed George Washington’s 250th birthday. That an­niversary is a fitting time for us to reaffirm our need — our demand — that our Presidents tell the truth, that they honor the Will of the American people. Edward Asner, the star of television’s "Lou Grant’’show, was In Washington this week with other actors to an­nounce support for a nationwide profect, Medical Aid for El Salvador. They presented a 125,000 check to a Mexican representative ofthat organi­zation. The money is to be spent for medical supplies that are going to the Democratic Revolutionary Front in El Salvador. / pet up at seven. I gel up at about eight. In winter I gel up half an hour later. You get up very early. Did you sleep well? I had a good night’s rest. How did you sleep last night? Not at all v.'ctl, I spent a very bad night. I did’nt sleep a win!: all night. I couldn’t get to sleep. I was awake alt night. I can’t sleep well lately. I was awake till two in the morning. I wake up at every noise. When do you want to get up? Wake up, it’s time to get up. Wake up, it’s time to leave. Hétkor szoktam fel­kelni. Nyolc óra körül kelek fel Télen fél órával később kelek. Nagyon korán kel fel. Jól aludt? Jól aludtam. Hogy aludt az éjjel? Egyáltalán nem jól. Hossz éjszakám volt Egy szemernyit sem aludtam. Nem tudtam elaludni. Egész éjjel ébren voltam Nem tudok aludni az utóbbi időben. Éjjel kettőig ébren voltam. Minden zajra felébredek Mikor akar felkelni? Ébredjen (ébrsggyen), ideje felkelni f Keljen fel, mindjárt (mingyárt) indulni kell 1 AMERIKAI , MAGYAR SZÓ ft A A A á ftftft#ftftftftftftftft ft »ft ft ft# USPS 023-980 ISSN 0194-7990 Published weekly, exc. last week in July and 1st 2 weeks in August by Hungarian Word,Inc. 130 E 16 St. New York, N.Y. 10003. Ent. as 2nd Class Matter, Dec. 31. 1952 under the Act of-March 21.1879, at the P.O. of New York, N.Y. Szerkeszti a Szerkesztő Bizottság Előfizetési árak az Egyesült Államokban egy évre $ 18.— félévre $ 10.— Kanadaban és minden más külföldi országban egy évre $ 20.— félévre $ 12.— Postmaster t Send address changes to; Hungarian Wordene. 130 E 16 St. New York, N.Y. 10003.

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