Vol. 72/No. 44      November 10, 2008

Simultaneously the U.S. State Department—without offering a single piece of evidence—has accused the Cuban government of ordering terrorist attacks around the world. Both are ominous moves that threaten bloody new reprisals against the Cuban people for their defense of the Grenada revolution.

As we go to press, U.S. troops have surrounded the Cuban embassy in Grenada barring all entry and exit. There are some 18 Cuban diplomatic personnel on the island, including children. In addition, U.S. troops say they are holding over 600 Cubans prisoner.

On November 1, Sir Paul Scoon, the man Washington has arbitrarily installed to run Grenada, ordered all Cuban diplomatic personnel off the island within 24 hours.  
 
November 10, 1958
Moves toward reinstating police-state rule are meeting fierce opposition in Japan from over 4,000,000 trade unionists, who staged rallies, marches and work-stoppages throughout the country on Nov. 5.

At the opposite side of the “free world,” in West Germany, a debate is raging on the parallel between authoritarian curbs being urged on that country by the U.S. and the stages of Hitler’s rise to power.

The Japanese people are violently objecting to a government-sponsored bill which would give the police arbitrary authority to search, to disperse gatherings and to exercise other Gestapo-type power. The Japanese workers bitterly remember how the police exercised these powers in the pre-war dictatorships. To eliminate “dangerous thoughts,” police stopped people on the streets, or students on the campus, demanded to see the books and papers they were carrying, invaded homes, prevented meetings, etc. etc.  
 
November 11, 1933
New York—While the organization campaign drive of the Hotel and Restaurant Union Branch of the A.F.W. is going on as reported previously the Union is confronted now with a new serious situation.

The bosses realize that our Union is becoming a powerful force and they are preparing to strike the Union a blow. The big Hotel owners are working methodically in creating the scabbing machinery. They have already begun to force the workers of Taft and New Yorker Hotels to join the company Union. These Hotels so far have very few union members. This fact alone should convince every food worker that in order to protect his interests he must not only join the Union but convince his fellow workers to do the same.

The hours of the waitresses at Loft’s are being lengthened, cooks and waiters are being fired arbitrarily, and the impossible burden of proving that the discharge is for union activity is being put on the organized workers.  
 
 
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