The company confirmed as recently as May 20 that the plant, which completely retooled only a year and a half ago to make the Chrysler New Yorker, was closing down in July.

About 2,800 of the more than 5,000 Lynch Road workers are on indefinite layoff.

Chrysler would not specify the concessions it wants but hinted at relaxed job rules in the UAW contract. However, any concessions would be in addition to the $462.5 million the union has already sacrificed.

Chrysler workers were pressured to accept that scheme because they thought it was their only chance for survival. Lynch Road is an example of what Chrysler’s blackmail means for workers. It hasn’t meant survival.  
 
July 4, 1955
At its recent convention in Atlantic City, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People made its sharpest criticism to date of President Eisenhower. At the last minute Vice-President Nixon scurried down to Atlantic City to smooth things over. But even this proved fruitless.

The NAACP convention opened June 21 on the heels of Eisenhower’s televised press-conference denunciation of the anti-Jim Crow amendment to his Universal Military Training bill. Moreover, the convention’s opening session was greeted with a telegram from the White House urging “patience” for “the decade ahead.”

In his report on political action, Clarence Mitchell, Director of the NAACP’s Washington Bureau, specifically linked Eisenhower with the “bi-partisan program of smothering civil rights legislation.” At one end of Pennsylvania Avenue the Democratic Majority leader of the Senate killed all anti-Jim Crow bills, he said. “At the other end, the President maintains complete silence.”  
 
July 12, 1930
Last week the Militant was compelled to omit publishing its regular number. Lack of funds made it impossible. The income of the Militant has been sharply affected by the intense unemployment and by the summer period which usually cuts down activities.

The difficulties with the Militant are all the more harmful now, at a time when the Marxist truths it has been hammering home, against the greatest obstacles, have taken deep roots in the Communist and class conscious movement in this country.

It is imperative to maintain the Weekly! It is necessary to distribute this “burden”—one which we gladly assume as our elementary right and duty in the workers movement—to broader sections of our readers.

The urgency of this appeal cannot be exaggerated. Money is needed NOW for the next issue, and the one thereafter. Upon the rapidity and generosity in the response to this appeal, depend the forthcoming numbers of the Militant.  
 
 
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