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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: OCAW endorses Clinton
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- ** Topic: OCAW Endorses Bill Clinton **
- ** Written 1:12 pm Jul 21, 1992 by ocaw in cdp:labor.newsline **
- OCAW Endorses Bill Clinton
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- President Robert E. Wages of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers
- International Union today released the following statement by the
- union's executive board endorsing Governor Bill Clinton for President
- of the United States:
- "It is clear that, between the candidates running for the
- Presidency, Bill Clinton should receive the political support of every
- member of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union in
- the fall election.
- "While we make the unequivocal endorsement of Governor Clinton,
- OCAW remains committed to and absolutely unwavering in our belief that
- working men and women need and deserve political representation not
- afraid to stand up to the powerful interests of those who would move
- our jobs to Mexico, cripple us in the work place, bail out the rich
- with our sweat and blood, poison the earth on which we live, and cast
- tax fairness as a break from capital gains.
- "We reject the party platform in those areas where it panders to
- the rich business interests who would support the North American Free
- Trade Act; blames American workers rather than supports them; praises
- free enterprise and the free market without even momentarily examining
- what massive capital formation has done to the American worker; and
- attempts to cast tax fairness by playing to the wealthy interested in
- capital gains rather than to the worker who seeks to gain from
- capital.
- "It is clear that American working men and women, environmental
- activists who wish to stand against corporate poison, the poor and
- disenfranchised, and all of us who believe in real campaign reform,
- socal justice, and economic security must organize to develop a real
- political alternative in the future. We shall, therefore, organize
- around the Labor Party Advocates' program to seek a new political
- dialogue.
- "In the meantime, here and now, it is equally clear that the
- destruction George Bush has brought to American society--to quote
- George Bush--'cannot stand.' Governor Clinton must be elected.
-
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