You wrote that on a train trip ".... The train slowed to a crawl because of the poor conditions of the tracks." If you can recall when and where this happened, I'd like for you to let me know. Was it in the U.S.? on Amtrak?

I do not have a car (stolen) and use public passenger rail often. This sort of thing needs to be addressed.

Willard Saunders Washington, D.C.

`So goes the class struggle'
Deborah Kott, 40, and her husband, Ronald, 43, of Johnstown went on trial January 6 in a Cambria county court for assaulting three policemen during a labor struggle by dairy workers in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on August 1, 1995.

One of the policeman, Reginald Floyd, punched Mrs. Kott in the face during the battle, breaking her jaw.

According to Floyd, who testified at the trial, Mrs. Kott was punched "because she kept coming at me like a madwoman."

Of course, the workers had every reason to be mad on the night of August 1.

Sani-Dairy, the company where the strike occurred, was attempting to break the union by using replacement workers to drive the trucks. The striking dairy workers had no alternative but to attempt to prevent the scab drivers from leaving the Sani-Dairy premises.

The police were called to the scene by the Sani-Dairy bosses to clear a path for the scabs.

In a January 7 Johnstown Tribune Democrat article on the incident, it was stated that officer Floyd claimed that "the Kotts had repeatedly ignored his requests to refrain from walking in front of the vehicles."

So goes the class struggle, officer Floyd! One man carried a sign outside the Courthouse reading, "Workers Have a Right to Defend Their Jobs."

Nicholas Brand

Loretto, Pennsylvania

Remember Crazy Horse
The year 1997 will commemorate the 120th anniversary of the assassination of Crazy Horse, the Oglala Lakota mystic, warrior, visionary, patriot and folk hero, on September 5, 1877 at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.

The year 1997 will also commemorate the 120th anniversary of the heroic surrender of Crazy Horse for the welfare of his people on May 6, 1877.

The year 1997 will commemorate the 55th anniversary of the publication of Marie Sandoz's classic biography Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas in 1941.

McArthur Gunter (Tashunka Raven)

Camp Springs, Maryland

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