Vol. 75/No. 42      November 21, 2011

The strike is over unfair labor practices. Even though the workers voted to be represented by the UAW in October 1985, the company refused to recognize the union.

LTV continued to run the plant with its discriminatory “merit system” instead of seniority.

The company assigned the workers jobs on an arbitrary basis. The wages workers received were also decided arbitrarily and the attendance policy was selectively enforced.

LTV pays the Camden workers about half of what they pay UAW members for similar work at the Dallas-based LTV Aerospace and Defense plant.  
 
November 20, 1961
LA PAZ—Grave disturbances in this two-and-a-half mile high city in the Andes spoke eloquently of the incapacity of the Dr. Victor Paz Estenssoro government to find an effective solution to the social and political crisis wracking Bolivia. The disturbances also indicated how little faith exists among the populace in possible help through “Alliance for Progress” handouts.

On Oct. 18, the government survived another attempted rightist coup d’etat. Similar attempts have been repeatedly crushed through the aid of the militia and armed workers and peasants.

Students supported the Chauffeurs Union in protesting a government decree boosting the price of gasoline from four cents a liter to seven cents. In retaliation for the student role in the demonstration, the government issued a decree closing schools for the year.  
 
December 19, 1936
DETROIT—Will there be a nation-wide automobile industry strike soon?

There is a striking parallel between Detroit today and Akron, the rubber center of the world, of one year ago, when the United Rubber Workers of America began an industrial unionization campaign simultaneously with evidences of wide-spread dissatisfaction.

Bitter and resentful of speed-up and wage reductions, Akron rubber workers’ protests took a then novel form—that of sit-down strikes.

Inside of three weeks, over 30,000 rubber workers had been directly involved in sit-downs. Each of the big plants, Firestone, Goodyear, and Goodrich was shut down! The wave of sit-downs culminated in the successful five-week’s Goodyear strike won primarily by the indomitable courage and militancy of the rank and file.  
 
 
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