(1) NLG, LASSO Firing up the Picket Line

by Marcus Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2004 at 3:08 AM
backlassoweb@yahoo.com

Sunday at 9 AM Jim DeMaegt from the National Lawyers Guild came to the Vons supermarket in Hermosa Beach to speak about the strikers civil rights—free speech. He asked the strikers not to be intimidated by the police and the manager of the store.

(1) NLG, LASSO Firin...
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Jim DeMaegt told the crowd that it was legal to talk to Vons costumers crossing the picket line. He asked the police officers present at the store to stop harassing strikers. “Angry workers have the right by law to tell, to the people crossing the picket line, how they fell about them,” he said.