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JANUARY, 1999 • VOLUME 4, NUMBER 1 • THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE LABOR PARTY


A CALL FOR
ECONOMIC JUSTICE

Amend the Constitution
to Guarantee Everyone
a Job at a Living Wage

Pay Laid-Off Workers
Two Months
Severance for Every
Year of Service

Restore Workers
Rights to Organize,
Bargain and Strike

End Bigotry:
An Injury to One
Is an Injury to All

Guarantee Universal
Access to Quality
Health Care

More Time
for Family
and Community

Protect
Our Families

Ensure Everyone
Access to Quality
Public Education

Stop Corporate
Abuse of Trade

End Corporate
Welfare As
We Know It

Make the Wealthy
Pay Their Fair Share
of Taxes

Revitalize the
Public Sector

End Corporate
Domination of
Elections

Build a Just
Transition
Movement
to Protect Jobs
and the
Environment

Enforce Safety &
Health Regulation
with Worker
Inspectors

Reclaim the
Workplace:
Job Design,
Technology
and Skill

LABOR PARTY
DOCUMENTS

from the First
Constitutional
Convention

Resolution:
Just Healthcare

Resolution:
Workplace Bill of Rights

Resolution:
Fair Trade Campaign

Resolution:
Protect Social Security

Organizing Resolution:
LP Style of Work

Organizing Resolution:
Change the Party Structure

Organizing Resolution:
More LP Campaigns

General Resolutions
and Solidarity

A Call for Economic Justice:
The Labor Party Program

Labor Party
Constitution

Labor Party
Implementation Agreement

CONTENTS
Feature Story

Set to Organize!

Set to Organize!
1,414 delegates resolve to bring dramatic growth and increased activism to the Labor Party at the LP's First Constitutional Convention in Pittsburgh ...

Our main story
• Page One:
Set to Organize!
• Page Two:
Electoral Debut
• Page Three:
Just Healthcare
• Page Four:
Workplace Rights
• Page Five:
Social Security
• Page Six:
Fair Trade
• Page Seven:
Organizing & Restructuring
• Page Eight:
Delegate Resolutions
• Page Nine:
Constitutional Debate

Chapters Convene

Labor Party Documents
The resolutions and documents acted on by the First Constitutional Convention are available in the LP Documents area (and listed at left).

Labor Party People:
Conversations with ...

Convention Speakers
  • Cecil Roberts
    Pres., United Mine Workers of America
    'We've got to take our power back '
  • Buzz Hargrove
    Pres., Canadian Auto Workers
    'There is a class war here'
  • Ralph Nader
    Consumer Advocate
    'We've got the seeds of a great political party ...'
  • Henry Nicholas
    Pres., 1199C/American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
    'The labor movement needs you'
  • Michael Moore
    Filmmaker, author
    'Let's be the second party'
  • George Becker
    Pres., United Steel Workers of America
    'NAFTA is the greatest betrayal of workers in my lifetime'

In Massachusetts:
Just Healthcare
Wins at Polls

Capitol Hill Shop Steward
Who Can You Trust?

Press Coverage:
Labor Party Gets Ink

Labor Party Art:
Two Worlds

On-line Flier:
Labor Party's
Action Program

Convention Work:
Thanks!

Photo: © Michael Kaufman, Impact Visuals

Labor Party Press
Volume Four,

Number One

January, 1999

Published six times a year in January, March, May, July, September and November.

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Interim National Council
(in formation)

Co-Chairpersons:
Robert Clark, Kit Costello, & Baldemar Velasquez

At Large: representatives of OCAW, UE, BMWE, ILWU, CNA, AFGE, UMWA, CA State Council of Carpenters, and FLOC; Steve Barger, Noel Beasley, Joanne Bell, Dave Campbell, Mark Dimondstein, Lisa Frank, Ed Grystar, Gary Holloway, Cheri Honkala, Bill Kane, Kathy King, Ed Kornegay, Jr., Dan McCarthy, Adolph Reed, Jr., Tim Schermerhorn, Brenda Stokely, Sean Sweeney, Barbara Walden, Gerry Zero

Trustees:
Chris Townsend, Gerry Zero, Joanne Bell

Interim National Organizer:
Tony Mazzocchi

Recording Secretary-Treasurer:
Katherine Isaac


Organizers:

Bob Brown, Mid-Atlantic
243 Livingston Ave.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Tel: 732-418-1721;
Fax: 732-846-3939

Ed Bruno, New England
197 Friend St., 9th fl.
Boston, MA 02114

Tel: 617-531-0901;
Fax: 617-531-0902

Bob Kasen,
1532 16th St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20036

Leo Seidlitz, Pacific
1188 Franklin St.,

Suite 203
San Francisco, CA 94109
Tel: 415-440-4809;
Fax: 415-440-9297


Editor:
Laura McClure

Managing Editor:
Katherine Isaac

Art Director:
Michael Kaufman

Contributing Editors:
Lynne Baker, Peter Gilmore, Adolph Reed, Jr.

Artists:
Gary Huck, Mike Konopacki, Bill Yund

Photographers:
Lynne Baker, Rob Spencer; Impact Visuals: Harvey Finkle, Michael Kaufman

Special thanks to
The Labor Institute

This web issue:
Rick Peduzzi

The Labor Party Press is produced by members of the Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers Union; Graphic Artists Guild and the National Writers Union/U.A.W.

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