Vol. 79/No. 32 September 14, 2015
September 14, 1990 September 14, 1990
Hundreds of thousands of union members and other working people in cities across the United States and Canada took advantage of Labor Day activities during the first weekend in September to show support for their unions. At the events many participants bought copies of the Militant, which featured news on the Eastern Airlines strike and the U.S. aggression in the Arab East.At the head of several marches and present at rallies and picket lines were members of the Machinists union on strike against Eastern. Other workers on strike or battling for a contract were also present at Labor Day events — from garment workers and coal miners to bus drivers and newspaper printers.
September 13, 1965 September 13, 1965
The Mississippi Freedom Labor Union (MFLU) was formed in Shaw, Miss. in early April, among Negro farm workers. Within two weeks of its founding, 1,000 Negro workers had signed up, and more than 200 agricultural day laborers went on strike to win a union contract. The union spread to at least six other counties in the state, and is still waging a bitter strike struggle against the corporation farms.The strike has been affected by the seasonal character of farm work. There is a busy season of cotton chopping (weeding) during the spring and early summer, but then a lull in work until the harvest, which begins at the end of August and extends into the fall.
September 14, 1940 September 14, 1940
With a deal negotiated behind closed doors and sprung suddenly on both Congress and the American people, the U.S. government has taken a long plunge forward toward its new place in a warring world.The deal, blandly made public by President Roosevelt on September 3 involved the swap of 50 U.S. overage destroyers for bases in the Bahamas, in the Caribbean islands of Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Trinidad, and Antigua, and in British Guiana on the northern coast of South America. In addition Britain gave outright to the U.S. the right to bases in Newfoundland and Bermuda. The obvious one-sidedness of this exchange serves only to stress the relative positions now occupied by the British and U.S. empires in the world picture.