Vol. 73/No. 29      August 3, 2009

The turnout for the celebration exceeded by far the predictions of Sandinista officials, who had aimed to mobilize 150,000 people. Given the resources needed to maintain defense against the U.S. war here, government leaders decided not to provide transportation for massive turnouts from other cities.  
 
August 3, 1959
The issue of “wage inflation” advanced by the steel corporations as justification for forcing the Steelworkers out on strike is as phony as a plugged nickel. If there were no other evidence to confirm the fact, the publication of record-breaking profit figures of the major steel producers for the first half of the year would suffice.

United States Steel Corporation reported a whopping $254,948,496 net profit. This represents a phenomenal net of over 10 cents on each dollar of sales. These figures prove the contention of the union that the corporations can easily meet the wage demands of the Steelworkers without raising the price of steel, and still make a handsome profit.  
 
August 4, 1934
The great trucking strike of Local 574—the third strike conducted by this militant organization within six months—begins its third week today, and it is clear to all that a critical stage in the struggle is at hand. Having smashed every attempt of the bosses to break through the iron ring of 574’s pickets by the aid of police, even when the latter cruise the streets with loaded shotguns, the strikers now stand face to face with a determined campaign to break the strike by military force.

The National Guard, called out by the Farmer-Labor Governor, “to protect the citizens of Minneapolis” is issuing permits on a wholesale scale for the operation of scab trucks under military protection.  
 
 
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