COSATU, the 600,000-strong union federation. JON SILBERMAN reports.
poster display the But by the time of the president, 'We organisation istence found responsible state of emergency explained BATEVICEL lans tie in it was the which increasingly gaining nergenc state has the anti-apartheid struggle for national liberation the endorsed the rreedom Charter, the liberation programme o he South African people drawn up at the Congress. of the People in 1955 The Freedom Charter s the programme advanc ed by the African Nationa FIFTEEN THOUSAND delegates and supporters assembled in Soweto at the beginning of the month for the fifth annual congress of the South African NUM. The mineworkers union is the largest and most militant of the country's expanding trade unions. Its 360,000 members are the backbone of non-racial Congress for the South African revolutionary struggle. of its profor 362 -tionalisation of the mines The South African NUM congress also decided to promote closer progressive lighting apartheid'.
The also Wing for 'democratic . This follows to initiate principles workers control' on 'the The anti-apartheid proposals and hostel The 100t •0 the mines.
threatening industrial action. The system workers travelling of Clallipeu, La single with no indunas, represendivi lust yeur.
along tribal lines. The union is proposing to immediately replace the in dunas with directly elected worker representatives, pending the complete abolition of the hostels within one or two vears 'We will fight every inch of the James way emphasised 'to destroy the hostels, induna migrant systems. 1987 will be the WHel mineworkers take.control'.
The NUM congress also drew up a wage claim Chamber of Mines to start negotiations on it in April instead of May. The claim is for a 55 per cent increase in the miners' average pay of f110 per month.
The union's general COSATU members mourn the 177 miners who died in the Kinross mining disaster Cyril Ramaphosa made clear that the demand is not only based on union calculations of the industry's capacity to pay but also a way of changing the distribution of income in favour of labour' Financial Ohmen if the Financial Times Ivial wil.
The union is also pro posing that mechanisation of the industry be subject negotiation. The Chamber of Mines claims that COST constitute 45 per cent of total costs and has embarked or drive aimed major mechanisation boosting productivity axing jobs. The union is demaned in mechanisation plans before their implementa Mexico been expelled from the Institutional party and within the regime itself.
Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, sộn of 1930s populist president Lazaro Cardenas and leader of the Democratic Current group, has Revolutionary Party (PRI), Mexico's ruling party for the last 70 years. The Democratic Current and Cuauhtemoc have been voicing criticisms of the PRI's record and especially of its internal undemocratic practices. This affair may well open a split both within the old ruling The episode comes in the wake of the all-time low standing of the PRI among the Mexican masses and in the midst of an acute economic crisis. The PRI has lately been increasingly exposed to accusations of corruption and persistent failure to give a solution to the deteriorating plight of peasants and workers.