BY FRANK FORRESTAL
PITTSBURGH - The Socialist Workers Party here and in Cleveland, together with the Pittsburgh Young Socialists (YS), have announced they are hosting an active workers conference at the Marriott City Center in downtown Pittsburgh July 11-12. The YS National Committee and the steering committees of the SWP's national trade union fractions are co-hosting the gathering. The members of these steering committees will hold a meeting after the conference.

The gathering will assess the progress the Socialist Workers Party has registered, and discuss the next steps, in building branches of the party and chapters of the Young Socialists while responding to the pick up in the class struggle in the United States and other countries. Participants will discuss the growing convergence of the political work of the party's branches and union fractions.

(For more information on the program, schedule, and character of the conference see the ad on page 3.)

The Young Socialists National Committee has already organized speaking tours in the area to build the conference. During one tour at the end of May by Sarah Katz, a YS National Committee member from Chicago, a student at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, met the YS. Since then he has, among other activities, been helping to sell the Militant at the nearby Anheuser-Busch brewery, where workers voted May 1 to reject the company's contract offer.

Through sales of the Militant and Pathfinder books at plant gates, socialists from Pittsburgh have met a steelworker at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Co. and a coal miner in southern West Virginia who are interested in attending the conference.  
 
 
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