Tyler was framed up on charges of killing a white youth during a racist mob attack on a school bus carrying Black high school students.

As the bus carrying Tyler and other Black students left Destrehan High School in St. Charles Parish, it was surrounded by a brick-and-bottle-throwing white mob. Spotting a white man in the crowd with a shotgun, the students ducked under the seats for cover. A shot rang out and thirteen-year-old Timothy Weber fell dead.

Forcing Black students to lie on the ground, the police searched them and the bus for three hours.

Tyler protested the cop harassment. For this he was arrested for “disturbing the peace.”

Police severely beat Tyler trying to get him to admit to seeing the person who fired the shot. He was later charged for the murder of Weber.  
 
Sept. 5, 1955
Chicago, Aug.25—Strength, unity, solidarity and militancy, all in a measure greater than ever before, are the words that best sum up this strike that involves 40,000 Harvester workers who downed tools upon the expiration of their contact August 23.

Some 24,000 had already walked off by Monday, Aug. 22, and some as early as four days ahead of the time set. Tractor Works, Local 1301, President P. Neputy said: “the workers got tired of speed-up, low wages, lousy seniority and jumped the gun. They intend to stay out until their plant issues are settled along with their national issues.”  
 
Sept. 1, 1930
Every day brings news of intensified measures of repression against the Left Opposition in the Soviet Union. Stalin is taking new steps forward. In order to apply the “law” with even greater cynicism, he constantly extends the meaning of the accusations against our comrades. “Counter-revolutionist” addressed to them is not an insulting and lying epithet, it is an accusation involving five and ten years in prison. Comrade Trotsky has been expelled from the U.S.S.R. with the accusation of organizing “counter-revolutionary” movements—that is of organizing the Bolshevik, proletarian resistance to the pressure of class enemies whom the Stalinist apparatus fights in words.

Hundreds of militants, revolutionary workers, have been sent into places of deportation, then into prisons and solitary confinement under the lying accusation of “counter-revolutionary” activity.  
 
 
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