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By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Although he is 3 candidate tor ^
president, Mel Mason does not
expect to change his address to
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Instead,
he simply wants to use the
election as an opportunity to tell
people about his party -- the
Socialist Workers Party.
"Our campaign is based on
education," said Mason in an interview
from the Militant
Bookstore in Greensboro recently
week. "The task of the revolutionist
in this point and time is to
educate and the election provides
us with a fairly large forum to tell
to join rtrrsmrggte."
Though Mason, a former city
councilman from Seaside, Calif.,
la icaiiMK auuui ins cnances oi
becoming the United States' next
chief executive, he stresses that
his campaign is as serious as the
next candidate's.
"We are running a dead
serious campaign," said Mason.
Mason resigned from his
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The Winston-Salem/ Forsyth
County Minority Business
League met recently at an evening
meeting at Winston Mutual Life
Insurance Company.
Mrs. Frieda Williams,
economic development coordinator
for the city of WinstonSalem,
was the guest speaker. She
told members about available
resources in her office and the
N.C. Department of Commerce.
James Lassiter, a local at
lurncy, wnu serves as ine
League's temporary president,
appointed a committee to work
toward goals for the League.
George Brown of Brown Oil
Company will serve as the committee
chairman. Committee members
are Miss Marguerita
Marsh, photographer and receptionist
with Hanes, Mike Buston
of Southern Fasteners and Supply,
and William F. Fulton,
secretary of Winston Mutual.
They will make a report tonight.
Mrs. Evelyn Wright of REST
Church burns
mortgage
On Sunday, July 22, at 3 p.m.,
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sant Baptist Church at 795 N.W.
Crawford Place, will have a mortgage
burning and cornerstonelaying
ceremony.
The Rev. A.C. Robinson,
pastor of Pleasant Grove Baptist
Church in Marion County, S.C.,
will be the guest speaker. As a
part of the service, the Prince
Hall Masons of Bivouac Lodge
No-^ 503 will be conducting.
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Couple wed
30 years ago
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie E. Hill
were the guests of honor Saturday,
July 14, at an outdoor recepr?
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ly Road in celebration of the couple's
30th wedding anniversary.
Hostesses for the celebration
were the Hill's daughters,
Audrey, Wanda, Sandra, Penny
Hill and grandaughtcr, Vakhia
Hill.
Guests were treated to a variety
of foods, desserts and wedding
cake.
Special guest included Mr.
Hill's great aunt, Mrs. Betty
Lyons, who is 118 years old. *
Out-of-town guests were Mrs.
Margaret Ware and her children,
Bob and Ruby, and Aulin Moyer,
all from Reidsville.
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elected position in February and
has been traveling around the nation
asking people who are disenchanted
with the Democratic and
Republican parties to give his
party a chance. Unlike the major
political campaigns, Mason and
his running mate, Andrea Gonzalez,
have a campaign budget ot'
only $94,000.
His party advocates an end to
all racism and sexism, a call for
tougher affirmative action laws,
including quotas for education
and employment; support of the
ERA, desegregation of the
schools, using busing if
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strike, an end to government spying
and harassment, abolition of
ihe war budget, unilateral United
States nuclear disarmament, independence
for Puerto Rico and
a shorter workweek with no cut
in pay. In short, Mason's party
supports almost every issue to the
far left.
Many of those _issues*__said
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Inc. served as the temporal)
secretary and also offered record
keeping assistance . for a ncAv
business.
At the meeting tonight, a
representative from the N.C.
Depart went of Co mm e r cu is tentatively
scheduled to correlate
local goals with state goals
related to minority businesses.
Another highlight of tonight's
meeting will be some evaluative
remarks by Lloyd Leonard of
Twin City Chrysler-Plymouth
dealership.
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40-year-old Mason, are concerns
the other two parties refuse to address
but are issues that concern
the working class.
But because of Mason's stand
on the issues, he is almost an
unknown. He is not bombarded
by reporters waiting to print his
every move, nor are the crowds
gathering at his campaign stops
longing to get one look at a man
who wants to be the next president.
Instead, Mason gets an audience
when and whereever he
can and is fighting to get his
name included on the ballots in
all 50 states. So far, voters in 27
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?" and the Democratic nominee for
president.
"This system is really hell bent
on trying to make sure neoole
don't listen to a political alternative,"
Mason said. "We have
been basically excluded from the
national media. I tried to get on
ABC's "Nightline" but was told
1 couldn't.
"So to compensate, we have to
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make personal contact with people."
Mason's message to all he
meets is the same.
"Working people have to
throw their political weight
behind themselves," Mason said.
"What we have to do is become
the government. We ha\e a lovely,
breathing example of what
workers can do when they come
to power and that's Cuba.
Although still a poor country,
they have free medical care, free
college and education, no
unemployment and housing is a
right. This is a very crystal clear
example of what we can do."
Unlike the Rev. Jesse Jackson,
Mason sakT bis- is one?
that ti ufy represents a rainbow
coalition. Blanks, women,
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Mason.
Mason, a former member of
the Black Panther Party, insists
that he is not a rebel looking for a
cause, but a "rebel who won't
give up the cause."
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Mel Mason: The other black
"After the Panthers, it was a
long hunt to find another national
political organization,"
said Mason, who still dons a
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vestigated every organisation oil
the left and I was impressed with
the Socialist Workers Party."
There, Mason said, he has
found a home. Since joining the
party as a full member, he has
worked to educate others and to
uphold the beliefs of his party.
And being nominated to serve as
his party's presidential candidate
is a high honor and one that
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Mason said he hopes will be fruitful.
So far, the prognosis is good,
Mason said. The South, an area
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been receptive to Mason, he said. #
In the High Point, Greensboro
and Winston-Salem area alone,
Mason said, there are approximately
700 supporters -- not
enough to win a campaign, but
enough to let him know that there
are people out there looking for
an alternative.and enough to keep
him going.
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