At the two-thirds mark in the campaign, 61 percent of the goal has been reached, 6 percentage points behind pace. A stepped-up, weekly effort is needed to catch up.

“We have found a lot of interest among meat packers here in organizing unions and strengthening them where they exist,” said Joe Swanson, organizer of a week-long team to meatpacking centers in the Midwest. “In Storm Lake, Iowa, a lot of workers we talked to said they wanted another attempt to organize the union at the big Tyson pork plant there. Last year an organizing attempt failed. Workers said they are being treated worse now, after the election. So a lot of workers say they are rethinking how they voted.

Fourteen people subscribed to the Militant in Storm Lake, mainly Tyson workers. “We met for an hour with a couple who were active in the organizing campaign,” Swanson said. “They bought a copy of [the Spanish-language] Nueva Internacional no. 6. Another young man active in the campaign last year talked with us for a long time. He said it was very important to study Nueva Internacional.” As of July 5, four copies of New International and 24 Militant subscriptions have been collected by the Midwest team.

Seven copies of New International were sold on a five-day regional sales team to Utah and Arizona. Nearly 70 people purchased the Militant at shift changes outside mines in Utah and Arizona.

Susan Lamont from Birmingham, Alabama, reports that people attending the convention of the National Organization for Women in Nashville, Tennessee, bought eight copies of New International and 11 subscribed to the Militant.

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