Dave Irwin

Dave Irwin

Backing the PWW

In January 1998 fourteen Ohio labor leaders, headed by Dick Acton, vice president of the Ohio AFL-CIO, sent a letter to their contemporaries urging their financial support of the Communist Party USA's People's Weekly World. The letter, which was sent to 50 labor leaders in the Cleveland area of Northeast Ohio said the World "tells our story and unhesitatingly takes our side. It was there when we needed it and now it needs is."

• Dick Acton, Vice President, Ohio AFL-CIO
• Don Slaiman, National Staff, AFL-CIO
• Willlie Howard, Business representative, SEIU Local 47
• Jim Newbauer, Business Manager/Financial Secretary, IBEW Local 1377
• Vermel Smith, President, Cleveland Chapter, Coalition of Labor Union Women
• Greg Riemer, President, CWA Local 4309
• Dave Irwin, President, USWA Local 4448
• Jim Larocca, President, AFSCME/OCSEA Local 1801
• Joe Ventura, President, Painters Local 867
• John Gallo, Vice President, AFSCME Local 3360
• Ray Dennis, Legislative Director, SOAR
• Wally Kaufman, Secretary, AFL-CIO Retirees
• Bruce Bostick, Chairman, Grievance Committee,USWA Local 1104
• Betty Chaka, Federation of Retired Workers

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