BY JOHN STUDER  
PHILADELPHIA—Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ offered part of its information table for literature on the Militant Fighting Fund at the Labor Day event here. Union members picked up brochures and asked questions about the union fight at Co-Op. John Braxton, co-president of American Federation of Teachers Local 2026, endorsed and many others asked to get a follow-up call.

BY TAMAR ROSENFELD  
MAGNA, Utah—Trade union locals set up booths at the annual AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic here. Tables put up by striking magnesium workers and the Co-Op miners got a lot of interest. The Militant Fighting Fund table was also welcomed. Kent Anderson, president of Communications Workers of America Local 7704 in Salt Lake City, who helped organize solidarity activities with the Co-Op miners, endorsed. Warren Brodhead said he was grateful for the Militant’s coverage. Brodhead, a Salt Lake City high school teacher and president of American Federation of Teachers Local 4430, also endorsed and made a contribution.
 

Judge Dee Benson granted C.W. Mining’s attorneys until September 30 to respond to all the defendant motions to dismiss the retaliatory lawsuit. The defendants will then have seven days to respond in writing once more before the judge sets a hearing date.
 
 
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