Steelworkers leafleted the gates May 23 with summaries of the Newport News contract and a cover letter urging workers to fill out union cards and mail them in.

Avondale Shipyards is a notorious union-busting outfit. With about 9,000 employees, it is the largest private employer in Louisiana.

Since Newport News came under union contract, Avondale is the largest non-union shipyard in the country.  
 
June 27, 1955
In face of heavy assaults from the police and injunction-happy judges, striking hotel workers in the Miami area are holding firm.

The day after municipal elections in Miami Beach, police made mass arrests on the few picket lines which hadn’t yet been banned by injunctions. The charge was loitering without visible means of support. Thirty-one members of AFL Hotel Workers Union Local 255 were held on $100 bail each.

All Dade County labor unions have united behind the AFL Hotel Workers in their fight against government-by-injunction. Another result of the strike has been the formation in Washington, D.C., of a joint AFL-CIO committee to aid the strike and consider the problems of organizing Southern labor.  
 
June 28, 1930
The National Unemployment Convention is to meet July 4th and 5th in Chicago. If it is animated by a sense of responsible and militant leadership and effective policies of class struggle—if it is not satisfied with noise but embarks on serious organization and action, this convention can become a protest centre for the mobilization of the millions of unemployed.

Demand recognition and credits to the Soviet Union.

Demand the enactment of social insurance, unemployment insurance, and old-age pensions to compel the capitalists to bear the charges for the breakdown of the system.

Demand the six-hour day and five-day week. Organize a united front of the unemployed and employed.  
 
 
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