Vol. 71/No. 34 September 17, 2007
Espinoza, a member of the Sandinista Defense Committee and an employee of the Ministry of Construction Heavy Equipment Depot near the remote village of Rio Iyás, is the most recent victim of U.S. imperialism’s undeclared war against Nicaragua.
Seventy counterrevolutionaries, part of the army Washington is using to turn this area into a battlefield against the Nicaraguan revolution, had entered the depot with powerful explosives.
A mammoth engineering and construction project was Washington’s target here.
September 16, 1957
A civil rights leader in Birmingham, Alabama was the victim of a brutal racist attack when he attempted to escort four Negro children into Phillips High School September 9. They sought to test segregation in the state’s public school system. Rev. F. L. Shuttlesworth was severely beaten by a white gang wielding brass knuckles, chains and clubs, as he alighted from the car in which he had brought the children to the school entrance.
The previous week a Negro, Judge Aaron, had been brutally tortured and castrated by Ku Klux Klansmen who told their victim to warn Rev. Shuttlesworth that “the same thing will happen to Negros who try to enroll their children in white schools.” Three of the Klansmen were arrested and two confessed to this crime.
September 17, 1932
The fourth winter of crisis is at hand. The fourth winter of hunger and starvation for millions of unemployed.
While the press speaks of an upturn the bosses are giving the workers an introduction to the fourth winter by a new wave of wage cuts in the basic industries.
The operators and “union leaders” of the anthracite region met in New York to discuss a 20 to 25 percent wage cut. The railroads were so successful in their “United Front” in the last 10 percent wage cut that they want to increase it by another 20 percent cut. The ship owners insist that a big wage cut is necessary if they are going to compete with other shipping lines.
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