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

Mark the Date! —
Just Healthcare
Campaign Kickoff

		On Sunday, June 6 the Labor Party officially launches its campaign for Just Healthcare with a nationally aired radio call-in show.
Help us organize to make the launch a success ... and learn about what's in the works after June 6th!

CONTENTS
Feature Story

Tax Racket
It's hard to believe, but the original income tax was imposed only on the rich. Today, they're off the hook ... and most proposals to "fix the system" would keep them from paying their share. Find out why ... and what the Labor Party wants to do about it ...

Capitol Hill Shop Steward
Hot Tip —
Invest in Barges!

Letters:
Social Security
Thoughts & Corrections

Bob Kasen 1935-1999:
Life of Integrity

Conversation with Al Achtner:
Iowa Organizing

Labor Party
Reorganizes

• Labor Party Reorganization
• Free T-shirts!

Photo — Kensington
Welfare Rights Union:
Protesting
Pennsylvania's
Welfare Cutoff

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).

On-line Flier:
Labor Party's
Action Program

Labor Party Press
Volume Four,
Number Three

April-May, 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

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:
Impact Visuals —  Harvey Finkle, Michael Kaufman, Bill Stamets, Thor Swift, Jirn West

Special thanks to
The Labor Institute

Thanks to:
Philomena Mariana for editorial expertise; Rick Peduzzi, this web issue.

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.