Vol. 72/No. 27      July 7, 2008

It was considered Virginia’s worst mining accident in 25 years.

This tragedy, like many mining disasters, could have been prevented. But Clinchfield Coal Co., which owns McClure, subordinated miners’ safety to company profit.

The United Mine Workers of America is conducting its own investigation into the causes of the explosion, independently of the ones being carried out by the company and the government.  
 
July 7, 1958
A slowing down of the rate at which the American economy has been sliding into depression is being touted by Administration and Congressional leaders a proof that the upturn has started and the economic crisis is over.

With glib assurances that “the bottom has been reached,” leaders of both parties have turned their backs on pleas for public works programs.

The Economic Committee calculates that on the basis of “optimistic” assumptions, unemployment will be as high as 5,500,000 next winter. Under less optimistic assumptions, the staff said, “unemployment would rise to as many as 7,000,000.”  
 
July 8, 1933
The strike of 4,000 pocketbook workers is the best answer to the demand for open shops of the Industrial Council of Leather Goods Employers Association. In the first week of the strike 25 non-union shops were stopped from work. The response of the workers is excellent. The strikers are picketing the shops daily. What is necessary now is mass picketing and mass demonstrations in the market to spread the strike to the rest of the scab shops.

Today we can show that through the militancy of the workers in the Morris White shop in N.Y., this boss was forced to settle with the union and concede to the union demands.  
 
 
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