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A National Labor Relations Board Judge has ruled that we were 

 unfairly treated at the hands of APC, and that APC had 

 committed many unlawful, discriminatory acts against us. I 

 would like to submit this NLRB ruling for the record, along 

 with this statement. 



The essence of the 50-year APC contract was to provide jobs 

 for Southeast Alaskans, as illustrated in Section 12K of the 

 contract; not to give a quick cash windfall to "out-of state" 

 Interlopers, opportunists or scabs. The facts point to the 

 charge that APC is the first, and foremost, violator of the 

 50-year federal contracts. 



The 50-year contracts must be revoked if fair play and 

 justice is to return to the workplace. Not only did the 

 permanent replacements take our jobs at the APC mill, their 

 families have occupied the majority of the remaining jobs 

 that were available outside of the confines of the mill. 

 Many strikers and their families have been forced to move 

 away. 



I was fired by APC for publicly speaking out against these 

 very excesses. On May 19, 1987, I testified before the 



