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Workers at the Detroit area Westinghouse heavy electrical repair shop have gone on strike. The shop, located near the Trumbull exit of John C. Lodge expressway, employs about 70 workers, most of them white males. The union there is the U.E. or the United Electrical Workers local 957.

U.E. national representative John Toth explains the background of the strike as follows: since September 1969, Westinghouse has been stalling the union in talks over the local supplementary agreement to the national contract between Westinghouse and the U.E. The company has been bullshitting around, saying that the union doesn’t represent the majority of the employees.

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There’s a lot of garbage down by the freeway.

It was early afternoon, clear and warm. We piled the garbage into the truck and headed towards Wayne State. “We” were about nine or ten brothers and sisters from People Concerned About Urban Renewal and the Young Prides. We were black and white, young and old, students and neighborhood people.

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