Vol. 76/No. 4 January 30, 2012
January 30, 1987
DAKOTA CITY, Neb.—Iowa Beef Processors Co., the nation’s largest beef slaughterhouse and meat-packing company, continues its lockout of 2,500 workers here.Workers participating in the round-the-clock picket lines are discussing the company’s threats to reopen the plant with scabs if members of the United Food and Commercial Workers union Local 222 don’t go along with its takeback demands.
No contract has been settled here since 1969 without a strike. Of IBP’s 13 packing plants, the Dakota City operation is the only unionized one.
In 1983 the meat-packers here were forced to accept a wage cut of $1.07 an hour. Wages were then frozen for five years. The company now wants to extend the wage freeze for another four.
January 29, 1962
U.S. policy has suffered a setback at the meeting of the Organization of American States. Washington has retreated from its demand for collective diplomatic sanctions against Cuba and is backing a “compromise formula” that would suspend Cuba from the OAS but would not bar individual OAS members from maintaining diplomatic ties with Cuba.Failure thus far of the U.S. to blackjack key Latin American governments into full support of a gang-up on Cuba dramatically underscores the decisive fact that large masses of the Latin American people want no part of the U.S. plans for imperialist aggression against Cuba.
Rarely has a large and powerful government so crudely and nakedly sought to whip its smaller neighbors into line.
January 30, 1937
While General Motors plants employing 125,000 men lay idle and the ever-widening circles of the country’s biggest auto strike reached the shores of San Francisco bay, “Labor’s friend” in the White House showed his capitalist colors this week.John L. Lewis addressed an appeal to the President—and got a quick reply. “This is not time for neutrality,” said Lewis. “Is it time for the President to intervene?” Lewis was asked. “Labor intervened for the President,” he replied. “We expect him to side with the workers when they are right.”
The President’s reply came like a dash of cold water to the labor men who still hope for workers’ aid from capitalist politicians. Roosevelt was plainly irritated at a direct class appeal to him—from the wrong class!
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