On November 27, six members of the executive committee of the Revolutionary Democratic Front (FDR) of El Salvador were kidnapped and assassinated.

Their bodies, riddled with bullets and showing signs of torture, dismemberment, and strangulation, were found at the lake near Ilopango International Airport, east of the capital San Salvador.

The six were captured shortly before noon on November 27 as they were about to hold a news conference at the San José High School in San Salvador.

According to eyewitness reports, the school was surrounded by about 200 men in Army and National Police uniforms. About twenty men in plain clothes burst into the school and forced everyone to the floor. The FDR leaders were beaten, blindfolded, and carried off in pickup trucks.  
 
December 12, 1955
The merged AFL-CIO represents 15 million union men and women. Adherence of some of the independent unions may further strengthen this mighty force. What do the ranks hope to get from this powerful united movement?

The first hope is for genuine solidarity—an end to the raiding, strikebreaking and cannibalism.

The second hope is for a successful drive to organize the two-thirds of America’s wage earners who are still denied the benefits of unionism.

Number one target is the South—bastion of the open shop and labor’s most brazen enemies in Congress.

Success in organizing the South requires militancy and absolute opposition to Jim Crow.

Militancy is needed to fight the companies, their sheriffs, thugs and vigilantes. Let it be noted well that the racist organizations now being formed are aimed not only at terrorizing the Negro people but at smashing the expected organizing drive of the AFL-CIO.  
 
December 1, 1930
We have just received the welcome news that on December 20, the gates of Comstock, N.Y., Prison will be opened to release comrade Maurice L. Malkin. Comrade Malkin was one of the victims of the Mineola frame-up a few years ago in connection with the New York fur workers’ strike. One of the most active militants in the Left wing and its union, and a foundation member of the Communist Party, he was railroaded to the penitentiary by the prosecution, and began to serve his term almost two years ago.

The news of his release has been received with enthusiasm by the New York comrades, and preparations are being made to meet him as befits a revolutionary fighter. As he comes to Grand Central Station on December 20, he will be met by a large group of his comrades and fellow-fighters in the needle trades workers’ Left wing who remember him on dozens of picket lines and everywhere else that the struggle was hottest.  
 
 
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