Vol. 72/No. 28      July 14, 2008

The conference occurred in the context of stepped up attacks by the coal operators and the government against the UMWA.

The more than 140 coal miners who were there—113 of whom were women—were among those union activists who are in the forefront of trying to figure out how to get the UMWA into fighting trim to repel efforts to weaken the union.  
 
July 14, 1958
A mass meeting sponsored by the Philadelphia branch of the NAACP, June 26, protested the racist assault at a Memorial Day outing in Forrest Park, Pa. and demanded prosecution of police who greeted returning picnickers—the victims of assault—with swinging nightsticks.

Mr. James Baker, counsel for the NAACP, said his organization would appeal to the state and federal Attorney Generals and institute civil suit against the Park owners for failing to provide protection to patrons.

Several in the audience proposed that a return to the Park be organized with adequate preparations made to defend the Negroes from racist attack.  
 
July 15, 1933
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Suspension of all jobless relief by the city administration stared in the faces of 2,000,000 unemployed workers and their dependents this week. Only vague promises of aid from the state government have been made. The situation of the unemployed remains highly precarious and a desperate tension exists in their ranks.

The suspension of relief came about as a result of a financial crisis due to the sabotage of Relief Bond sales by the local bankers. The bankers are intent on cutting down the city budget so as to enable the administration to pay them on loans due, or at least to force concessions profitable for them.  
 
 
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