January 29, 1971
Jan. 19 - The Pentagon admitted yesterday that U.S. forces are being used on an escalated scale in Cambodia. The heightened U.S. intervention occurred as South Vietnamese and Cambodian troops with heavy U.S. air support intensified the effort to open Route 4 linking Pnompenh to Kompong Som, Cambodia's only deepwater port.
The Associated Press reported from Pnompenh Jan. 18 that "American helicopter gunships flew at least three air strikes in support of Cambodian troops trying to reopen this key overland supply route to the sea.
There have been reports this week of further U.S. bombing attacks on North Vietnamese "missile sites" - the so- called "protective reaction" of U.S. bombers when these bombers are being tracked by North Vietnamese radar.
These attacks began shortly after the elections last November when it was "discovered" that Hanoi was tracking U.S. "armed reconnaissance" missions - as though it was something new.
Beneath the Pentagon double-talk about bombing "missile sites" however, there is also the real danger that Washington is actually bombing civilian population centers and it intends to reescalate this type of bombing.
One should remember that for almost two years, the Johnson administration bombed North Vietnamese villages under the pretense of bombing "military targets." It was not until after Harrison Salisbury's revelations in late December 1966 about the widespread destruction of North Vietnamese cities that the Pentagon finally was forced to drop its pretense about bombing "military targets."
January 26, 1946
Today at one minute past midnight the battle was joined
in the most titanic and crucial labor struggle in American
history. Eight hundred thousand CIO workers - the flesh and
bones and blood of America's basic industry - threw down the
gauntlet before the steel corporations, the most voracious
and ruthless monopoly in the world.
Throughout the nation, at one blow from the mighty fist of steel labor, the gigantic mills, the vast blast furnaces and hearths, stood cold, silent and deserted. With its heart paralyzed, all American industry will in a few short weeks face virtual prostration.
The power in action of organized steel workers is joined with that of more than 900,000 other striking workers already massed on embattled picket lines from coast to coast. They are fighting for decent wages and security against the country's greatest monopoly giants, whose savage slogan is "Unconditional Surrender to Wall Street!"
First on the honor roll of the heroes of American labor are the 225,000 General Motors strikers. Last week they received mighty reinforcements. On Tuesday, some 200,000 electrical and radio workers poured from the plants of the electrical trusts. The next day, the united forces of 325,000 CIO and AFL packinghouse workers clamped fighting picket lines around the plants and stockyards of the meat barons.
Today no less than 1,700,000 workers are on strike at one time. They are all fighting for the same thing, a greater share of the wealth their labor produces, the wealth that is being drained off in unprecedented profits, for a handful of Big Business parasites who produce nothing yet demand all.