Vol.64/No. 16 April 24, 2000
25 and 50 years ago
April 25, 1975
"The 53,000 people that will be in Kennedy Stadium are going to be dwarfed by the crowd of people outside."That's how a spokesperson for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) summed up the massive turnout expected for the April 26 "Rally for Jobs Now," called by the Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO. The rally will be held in Washington, D.C., and organizers are readying loudspeakers outside to carry the speeches to the overflow crowd.
The Amalgamated is one of several major industrial unions going all out to bring their East Coast members to the national demonstration.
"We will have at least twenty-five to fifty buses coming from New York," the ACWA spokesperson said. The call for a national jobs protest has been met with such an enthusiastic response, he added, that "I can't really give you an exact figure for all the regions, because there's more every time I check."
"It is particularly necessary for the Amalgamated to have a large turnout," the union officers write. "Our industry has been hit hard. We are currently suffering from an 18.8 percent unemployment rate, and there are no signs that the situation will improve."
April 24, 1950
Students at Penn State College are mobilizing for the defense of Dr. Lee Lorch, who was recently dismissed without explanation from his position as Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Dr. Lorch is a popular instructor, a capable teacher, and a leader on this campus in NAACP work, of which organization he is cochairman.Last year he was dismissed from CCNY with no explanation, but it is an open secret that both dismissals came because of opposition from high quarters to Dr. Lorch's leadership in the fight against Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's policy of Jim Crow in Stuyvesant Town, New York City.
It had come to light that Lorch has permitted a Negro family to move into his own Stuyvesant Town apartment as guests.
At a time when all traditional civil liberties are fast slipping away, the defense of Lorch is more than resistance to the brutal persecution of the Jim Crow Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
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