Vol. 72/No. 50      December 22, 2008

His running mate is Andrea González, national secretary of the Young Socialist Alliance.

Mason was elected to the city council in 1980. He is a longtime leader of the Black community here and he ran for office as a socialist and a fighter for Black rights.

The Mason-González campaign will be discussing with workers and others the root cause of the economic crisis—the capitalist system. Mason said that one of the central themes of the campaign will be “opposition to U.S. intervention in Central America, Lebanon, and the Caribbean.  
 
December 22, 1958
Chrysler workers in Detroit, spearheaded by men and women from the Dodge Main plant, have given the lead in past weeks to auto workers seeking unity of employed and unemployed union members in the face of interlocking problems.

Since the changeover to new models in mid-September, the Dodge Main plant alone has worked some 96,000 hours of overtime, enough to have brought at least 300 workers off the unemployed list had the corporation maintained a 40-hour week.

In protesting this policy, the Dodge Local 3 (UAW) Unemployed Committee won enough sympathy from the employed workers to shut down the plant by demonstrating in front of factory gates on Saturday mornings.

The Chrysler jobless workers were then joined in their campaign by a city-wide committee of unemployed skilled workers.  
 
December 16, 1933
Philadelphia—The entire shop, day and nights shifts, of the Latex Products Co., manufacturing specialty rubber goods, is out on strike against sweat-shop conditions, long hours and wages as low as $2.00 and $3.00 a week.

In the course of the strike struggle two local comrades, Lew Roberts and Jack Richmond, were arrested for picketing. They are now serving a sentence of 30 days each in Moyamensing Prison.

Fifty workers nearly all youth and mostly girls were driven to strike by wretched conditions and wages on which it was impossible to exist.

When the day shift came to work Monday at seven o’clock, the boss, a Mr. Waetzman, having learned of their intention of walking out at ten, locked them out. Picketing began immediately. There is not a single scab among these young workers.  
 
 
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