Vol. 71/No. 19      May 14, 2007

This racist government dragnet, targeting undocumented workers from Central and South America, is a threat to the labor movement as a whole. It represents another escalation of Reagan's overall attack on the democratic rights of the working class in this country as he pushes deeper into war abroad.

Hundreds of cops have been unleashed by the INS to bust into workplaces and arrest whomever they please. They have already claimed the life of one man, a poultry farm worker in Boulder, Colorado, who was hit by a truck April 30 while fleeing the agents of la migra.  
 
May 13, 1957
We extend our warmest fraternal greetings to the tens of thousands who will rally on May 17, in Washington, D.C., in a giant protest demonstration against Jim Crow. This inspiring nation-wide action marks another big advance in the great crusade of the Negro people to win their just demand for complete economic, political and social equality.

In paying tribute to all the men and women who are turning out for this protest rally, we believe a special salute is in order for the trail-blazing freedom fighters from Montgomery, Alabama, who have done so much to make the Prayer Pilgrimage possible.

Montgomery stands as today's living symbol of the fact that organized, mass rank-and-file action can deal effective blows to the Jim Crow system.  
 
May 14, 1932
“Free Tom Mooney! Free Tom Mooney!” shouted tens of thousands of workers in New York's May Day parade. “Free Tom Mooney!” with a spirit the rain could not dampen. One knew that all over the United States hundreds of thousands of his fellow workers were shouting the same demand with the same spirit. It was the voice of the class conscious vanguard, the future troops of the revolution, demanding the freedom of the living symbol of their struggle against capitalism. One had only to hear the measured beat, the deep tone of their shouting, to realize how profoundly stirred they were by the monumental hypocrisy and brazen impudence of that watch-dog of capitalism, his excellency, the governor of California, he who "convinced" himself of Mooney's guilt and refused to free him.  
 
 
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