Vol. 74/No. 21      May 31, 2010

As one worker was looking through the photos in the book, one of the workers who had gotten the book previously pulled up, rolled down his window, and said, “I’m almost done reading that book. It’s really good. You need to buy that, brother!”

With that encouragement, the rail worker pulled out $15 and got the combination. Both are Black and live in Baltimore, as do a number of rail workers in D.C.

Over the last few months, we have sold 36 copies of the book to rail workers. Most have been sold by a longtime Militant supporter who works on the railroad.

—Susan LaMont

Des Moines
Over the weekend we attended the Prairie States Regional National Organization for Women conference in Des Moines and the Fourth Annual Latino/Latin American Summit of the Great Plains in Omaha. After participating in discussions at both, we sold 4 copies of Workers Power and 4 subscriptions to the Militant.

Today at work a coworker gave me $15 for the Workers Power book I had given her to look at along with a Militant subscription. She said she would like to talk more because she was curious about how I had come to hold these ideas.

— Maggie Trowe

Chicago
Two coworkers in a large garment factory where I recently started working have bought copies of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power. One is a young Latino who has attended several May Day marches. He told me that he was interested in learning something about the Black struggle in this country because he didn’t learn anything from the Black studies class he took in high school.

I am never empty-handed. I always have a small supply of the book, papers, subscription blanks, and the current forum leaflet. You never know when a discussion will lead to an opportunity to get literature into the hands of a coworker.

—Ilona Gersh
 
 
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