Vol. 75/No. 33      September 19, 2011

Striking dairy farmers in New York came to this city on Labor Day to explain their action to participants in a union-organized parade and picnic.

Some workers helped by passing out over 400 leaflets at the gathering. “Farmers have been told,” the farmers’ leaflet noted, “that wage increases raise the prices of the products they must buy. Workers have been told that prices needed by farmers will raise their food prices in the supermarket. The only beneficiaries of this division have been the big banks and corporations who profit from the labor of both.”  
 
September 18, 1961
New information confirms that the Monroe [N.C.] kidnapping charges are a frame-up and that sole responsibility for the violence in that city last month rests on the local authorities and police who encouraged and worked in collusion with the white-supremacist mob.

Instead of arresting the officials of that Ku Klux Klan-ridden city, the FBI has instituted a nationwide manhunt for Robert F. Williams, militant civil rights fighter, and one of his supporters from New York. In the Monroe jail, a New York Freedom Rider and two members of the Monroe Non-Violent Action Committee are being held on the same kidnap frame-up. Meanwhile only the city officials’ version of the events in Monroe have been transmitted by the wire services to the nation’s newspapers.  
 
December 19, 1936
NEW YORK—For the past weeks a “rolling strike kitchen” has been supplying food and coffee to the striking maritime workers of New York City who keep a “midnight patrol” on the picket line. Manned and serviced by members of the Young People’s Socialist League and the Socialist Party, the kitchen has been of great aid in bolstering the morale of the striking seamen. Nightly, the kitchen patrols the wind-swept waterfront from the early evening until the small hours of the morning. Its crew of “Yipsels” work voluntarily, at the cost of hours of sleep, and the food served is donated by Socialists and sympathizers.

The advent of the rolling kitchen was hailed as an example of the whole-hearted support which the seamen must receive.  
 
 
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