Vol. 76/No. 1 January 2, 2012
January 9, 1987
DAKOTA CITY, Neb.— Signs stuck in the ground and stenciled on the shack tell the story “Local 222 locked out by IBP” [Iowa Beef Processors].On December 14 UFCW Local 222 members were locked out after they rejected a company contract proposal.
A union leaflet states the workers have not had a pay increase in five years and that the company wants to freeze wages for another four. The same flyer points out that in 1985 at least 8,000 injuries in the plant required medical attention.
Three Vietnamese workers picketing at the plant’s south end said the state is denying the unionists unemployment benefits.
January 1, 1962
Without consulting Congress, without even informing the American people, President [John] Kennedy has thrown U.S. troops into the civil war raging in South Vietnam.Already American soldiers have been killed and wounded. This may well be the first in a long series of shipments for burial at home, which became such a familiar aspect of American life during the Korean war.
Washington has been supplying gigantic quantities of arms and large detachments of military advisors and instructors to the corrupt and brutal dictatorship in South Vietnam for the past six years, but only this month has it actually ordered U.S. troops into combat areas.
January 2, 1937
Eight hundred thousand men and women are to be dropped from the relief rolls! That is the real meaning of President Roosevelt’s announcement that he will ask only $500 million for WPA [Works Progress Administration] to carry through the fiscal year.This appropriation, unless behind the scenes political manipulation makes Congress cut it still further, will cut the work rolls to 66 percent of the present totals. In round numbers this means 800,000 family heads cut off from their only means of livelihood. Roosevelt is determined to “balance the budget” at the expense of what he believes to be the most defenseless section of the population.
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