From: obu-AT-teleport.com
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 03:32:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: AUT: IWW on Wharfies (EN)


An international Call to
Support the Australian Wharfies!

On the 7th of April, 1998 the Patrick Stevedore Co. fired over 2000
Australian Longshore "wharfies". This is another major step in
international capitalism's attack on all working people's standards of
living.

Using the defeat of the Liverpool dockers to break longshore and other
maritime unions everywhere, international corporations are attacking
dockers unions in Brazil, Holland, Japan and now Australia. To the
corporations and their governments, these attacks are important to boost
and maintain the profits they make. To workers everywhere, the attack on
the dockers means the beginning of another round of attacks on all of us.
If the well organized and often militant dockers unions are broken, it will
be easier to impose austerity measures on the rest of the working class.

We must make it stop! We can make it stop in Australia!

The Wharfies have wide support in Australia. In the case of the Liverpool
Dockers, the cowardice of the trade unions led to defeat. But the workers
of Australia haven't  been defeated. In Melbourne over 100,000 people
marched in support of the longshore workers. In many port cities, community
groups are aiding local longshore pickets.

And solidarity is coming elsewhere. In Japan the national dockworkers
federation is refusing to unload Australian cargo. In Los Angeles,
longshore workers and 400 community supporters have stopped the unloading
of the scab ship Columbus Canada. Support groups are sprouting up along the
west coast of the US.

The IWW is calling for international actions of solidarity with the
Australian Wharfies. We are asking:

1) Longshore workers: refuse to unload, or go slow unloading, Australian
scab cargo.

2) Create support groups to work in conjunction with local dockers unions
to prevent unloading of scab loaded ships.

3) Support groups to promote a boycott of all Australian products.

4) Protests in front of Australian embassies and consulates.

An Injury to One is An Injury to All!

The General Executive Board, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the
Wobblies)

The IWW is an international, rank and file, democratic union organized for
the abolition of wage system. We can be contacted at:

Australia: IWW-ROC, POB 78, Bellingen NSW 2454
           roc-AT-au.iww.org,   www.au.iww.org/australia
Canada, US and elsewhere: IWW, 103 W. Michigan Avenue, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, USA
	ghq-AT-iww.org, www.iww.org
Finland: Solidaarisuus POB 102,   00801 Helsinki,  Finland
Germany: IWW, Atroper Strasse 22, D-47226  Duisburg-Rheinhausen
Ireland and UK: IWW-ROC, 75 Humberstone Gate, Leicester LE1 4WB, UK
	kevin.brandstatter-AT-bbsrc.ac.uk
Russia: Akai, POB 500, Moscow 107061






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