Workers Protest Polaroid's Policy

More than 200 people-most of them workers-gathered at Tech Square at noon yesterday at a rally sponsored by the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement to protest he Polaroid Corporation's involvement in South Africa.

Chris Nteta, a South African student in the Harvard Divinity School, spoke at the rally and demanded that Polaroid:

disengage entirely from South Africa;

make a statement against apartheid both in the United States and in South Africa;

donate all profits made in South

Africa to liberation movements in that country.

A spokesman for Polaroid said that the company would not respond to the demands until they were presented to the company officially.

Polaroid Statement

Polaroid also released a statement today saying that the company has refused to sell Polaroid identification equipment directly to the government of South Africa for use in the government's apartheid policy. The company said, however, that it sold other Polaroid equipment to an independent distributor who sold the equipment to the government.

Nteta said this evening that the company could not disclaim responsibility for what its distributor did. Nteta also said that Polaroid is relying on the ignorance of its workers about the conditions in South Africa.