Vol. 75/No. 32      September 12, 2011

August 30 is the first anniversary of the paramilitary raids in which more than 200 FBI agents entered Puerto Rico, dragged Puerto Rican patriots from their homes in chains, brought them to the United States, concealed them from their lawyers, and denied them bail.  
 
September 4 & 11, 1961
Robert F. Williams, militant North Carolina Negro leader, is the object of a nationwide manhunt by the FBI. If caught, he will be turned over to the white-supremacist authorities of Union County, N.C.

Elements, operating with police impunity, made several attempts to kill Williams, made shooting forays into the Negro district and organized mobs against peaceful picket lines.

The week’s picketing was marked by framed-up arrests of pickets, police-condoned attacks on them by racist hoodlums, and preparations of the Negro community to defend itself, arms in hands, from an expected invasion.  
 
December 19, 1936
Seven workers were jailed in 1935 as “dynamiters.” These men had been active in the bitter maritime “tanker” strike against the united power of the major California oil companies.

The men were railroaded to prison. The strike was crushed. Now, nearly two years later, the whole trial has been exposed as a ghastly frame-up and placed the State of California on trial.

Scudder has sworn that the Standard Oil Company, District Attorney Cleary, and Captain Healy of the San Francisco police combined to break a strike by framing innocent men.

The standards of California “justice” and of the Standard Oil Company are one and the same.  
 
 
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