Vol. 73/No. 18      May 11, 2009

In the course of the largely spontaneous protests, many people helped themselves to foodstuffs and other consumer goods in stores and supermarkets. Barricades went up in the poor and working-class neighborhoods of Santo Domingo.

The rebellion by Dominican working people was touched off by a series of austerity measures announced April 19.  
 
May 11, 1959
The receding waters of the Pearl River, 22 miles west of Poplarville, Mississippi, have yielded up the body of Mack C. Parker, the 23-year-old Negro lynched on April 25. There are no indications that the FBI or state police have any leads to the guilty parties. There is certainty however, that if somehow they were brought to trial, they would be quickly set free by an all-white Mississippi jury.

Independent sources have made important discoveries which reinforce the charge made in last week’s Militant that the lynching has the earmarks of a put-up job involving Mississippi officials.

On the night of the lynching the sheriff left the keys in his office. The lynchers knew this. They took them out of the locker without disturbing anything else.  
 
May 12, 1934
Minneapolis—In the hands of the men who drive the trucks and vans, the delivery equipment of a modern city, lays a mighty power. Not a whit less important or powerful are the men who transport and serve the gasoline and oil which makes this vast industry a living thing. Taken together with that numerous and important strata of workers who store, preserve and warehouse the food that constitutes the daily ration of the people, we have a group of workers whose social importance is enormous.

During the past several weeks these workers have streamed, by the hundreds, into General Drivers Union No. 574. More than 3,000 have been enrolled. They have not merely joined the union. They have set up committees to carry on the detail work.  
 
 
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