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MERKLE — Twenty-one cars of a
Santa Fe Railroad train derailed Sun
day about four miles south of Merk-
le, spilling naptha and fertilizer che
micals onto a pasture.
No injuries were reported.
Conductor Jess Alexander of
Sweetwater said he was riding in the
caboose when the accident occurred.
He said he saw a cloud of dust and
pulled the emergency switch to shut
down the engine, but by the time the
caboose rounded a curve, the cars
were already piling up.
Alexander said he did not know
what caused the derailment, but said
it probably was not caused by bad
track since that part of the line had
recently been repaired.
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Members of the Revolutionary
May Day Committee — who
stormed the Alamo last week —
promise more demonstrations and
marches leading to nationwide pro
tests on May 1, the “international
day of the workers.”
During the past month committee
members have occupied Texas’ most
revered shrine, barricaded them
selves in a giant statue of the mythic
al god Vulcan in Birmingham, Ala.,
and marched in the coal fields of
Beckley, W.Va.
A Houston committee member —
who says her name is Mary Jean Out
law — has promised additional de
monstrations to culminate in nation
wide protests on May Day to “mar
shal the forces of the revolutionary
minded people of this country.”
Two men and a woman on Thurs
day climbed atop the front wall of the
Alamo, replaced the U.S. and Texas
flags with red banners and shouted
political rhetoric, tossing leaflets to
the angry crowd below. Outlaw’s
telephone number was printed on
the leaflets.
The organization takes its name
from the “international day of the
workers,” so designated in Paris in
1889 by the Second International So
cialist Congress. May Day is an offi
cial holiday in the Soviet Union and
some other communist countries and
is celebrated by left wing groups
throughout the world.
The trio in San Antonio shouted
that on May 1 the nation’s streets
“would be flaming,” but Outlaw de
nied violence was planned. Commit
tee members have chosen forms of
demonstrations which will give them
maximum publicity with minimum
legal complications.
The three in San Antonio were
charged with desecrating the flag;
the 18 in West Virginia were charged
with misdemeanor treason for car
rying the red flag; and those in Birm
ingham were charged with seizure of
a public building and burglary.
James Daniel Callahan, 21, of
Oakland, Calif., one of three
arrested in the crowd outside the
Alamo for disorderly conduct, said
police told one of those atop the
shrine; “This puts you on the level of
the Iranians — the lowest form of
life.”
Answered Callahan, “We’re
proud to be on the level of the Ira
nians in their struggle.”
James Sabel of Atlanta, charged
with spray-painting “May Day 1980”
and other revolutionary slogans on
the Georgia State Capital and four
other state buildings, said he is not a
brigade member but is in sympathy.
“I think it’s great to see the coun
try rocking and reeling, ” he said Fri
day in a news conference on the State
Capitol steps after being released on
bond.
Outlaw was asked what the found
ation of the Revolutionary May Day
Committee is.
“Revolutionary May Day Com
mittee people all over the country
are calling on workers and the
oppressed minority and other people
who are seeing where the system is
heading to hit the streets on interna
tional workers day May 1 and to
march in demonstrations all over the
country with the international work
ing class all over the world in oppos
ing American imperialism and Soviet
imperialism,” Outlaw said.
How many people are members?
“Not enough as far as we are con
cerned, but too many as far as the
ruling class is concerned, she said.
Who are the protesters?
“The people are members of a bri
gade of people who have been travel
ing the country to bring the people
the message of May Day to organize
and not to go to work or to school but
to march on May Day,” she said.
Was not the occupation of the Ala
mo an act of terrorism?
“Not at all,” she said. “It’s a poli
tical statement, a very strong politic
al statement.”
“May 1 is not going to be the time
for an armed insurrection, but it’s
going to be a time to marshal the
forces of the revolutionary-minded
people of this country and to put
another program out there on the
streets. It’s going to put up the divid
ing line very sharply in this country
that there is another road forward
and that’s the revolutionary path. ”
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SAN ANTONIO — An April 4 trial
has been set for the three members
of the Revolutionary May Day Com
mittee who climbed atop the Alamo
and shouted political slogans.
The trio, charged with desecration
of the Texas flag, was released from
the Bexar County jail Friday on
$1,000 bond. Maximum punishment
for a guilty verdict would be a year in
jail and a $2,000 fine.
They were identified as Abigail B.
Bayer, 33, of Houston; Hayden
Steele Fisher, 30, of Houston; and
Damian Garcia, 30, of Houston.
Bail for the three was arranged by
attorney Glenn Van Slyke of Hous
ton, who said a fund had been estab
lished for bonding out members of
the committee who will be involved
in protests around the country
through May 1 — the “international
day of the workers.”
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FORT WORTH - Texas Si
Teachers Association delegates
overwhelmingly approvedapi
al that would grant teachersttei
to bargain collectively and stri]
that bargaining proved fruitless
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the motion.
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need the right to strike as apron
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