Vol. 72/No. 39      October 6, 2008

Congress quietly adopted the plan last April as an amendment to the Social Security “reform” package that raised taxes and lowered benefits for millions of U.S. workers.

The government will pay a fixed amount for every Medicare patient with the same category of illness.

The new Medicare payment plan, in addition to lowering government benefits, is a license for hospitals to kill old and sick working people who cannot afford to pay for their health care.  
 
October 6, 1958
NEW YORK—Still in the thick of a legal battle to block the Democratic Party from keeping it off the ballot, the Independent-Socialist ticket is energetically organizing its next two major activities. Supporters of the ticket are now ringing doorbells and using the telephone to assure a packed hall for its campaign rally Tuesday, Oct. 7.

Meanwhile, a decision is expected in the next several days from the Department of State on challenges of the Independent-Socialist nominating positions. The hearing also considered the challenge made by the same people against the Socialist Labor Party.

The challenge against them now boils down to 27 disputed signatures—and all of these disputed on the flimsiest of technicalities.  
 
October 7, 1933
Fifty thousand silk workers are entering their sixth week of strike with their ranks bigger and more solid than ever. The mills remain closed, the looms idle and every attempt of the bosses to reopen has been frustrated by huge picket lines of angry workers.

As testimony to the fighting spirit that is catching on everywhere under the impetus of the silk strike is the decision of the silk truck drivers not to handle scab silk.

The monster demonstration of more than 20,000 silk dye workers on Monday, October 2 in the Hinchliffe City Stadium marks the high point of the great textile battle. By this great demonstration the silk workers of Paterson and vicinity have given heart and hope to the workers everywhere.  
 
 
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