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   Vol. 69/No. 29           August 1, 2005  
 
 
SWP announces slate in Seattle city elections
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BY CHRIS HOEPPNER  
SEATTLE, July 20— The Socialist Workers Party announced today it is running a slate of candidates in the November election here. These include Cecelia Moriarity for King County executive and David Rosenfeld for city council. The party had earlier nominated Chris Hoeppner as its candidate for mayor. Moriarity is a garment worker and Rosenfeld is a meat packer.

“I’m very glad you’re running and will let union members know that the Socialist Workers Party is running a slate of candidates,” said Rogelio Montes, upon hearing the news. “I would like to join you at the next event.” Montes is an organizer for the Western Council of Industrial Workers, which represents workers who recently won a union contract for the first time at the Snokist cannery in Yakima after a seven-month strike. “Our union in Yakima received a lot of support from the SWP and the party spread the word about our fight for better working conditions and benefits nationally and internationally,” he said.

“I think it is a good thing that the Socialist Workers Party won the exemption,” added Montes, after learning that the SWP will not have to turn over names of campaign contributors to the city of Seattle (see article on page 7).

“It’s great” that the SWP won the right not to disclose contributors, said Patrick O’Connor, a long time member of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 19 in Seattle. O’Connor was part of a delegation of longshore workers and other unionists who joined a union delegation to Utah in solidarity with coal miners organizing to win representation by the United Mine Workers of America at the Co-Op mine there.

O’Connor also welcomed the announcement of the Socialist Workers slate in the election. “It’s better than the two-party system and a step forward for the labor movement,” he said. O’Connor said he is planning to participate in the August 27 anniversary event in Huntington, Utah, to support the Co-Op miners’ organizing efforts.
 
 
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