Vol. 76/No. 11 March 19, 2012
March 20, 1987
NEW YORK—Deep anger and discussion on how to respond effectively marked the reaction to this city’s latest police killing—the gunning down of Nicolas Bartlett on a Harlem street.In Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn’s principal Black community, some 3,000 people jammed into a high school auditorium for a meeting on the case March 5. Two days later, a thousand turned out for a similar meeting in Harlem.
A street vendor, Bartlett was killed after he allegedly made an unprovoked attack on a cop with a pipe. Eight cops chased him, surrounded him, and gunned him down.
The killing came some 48 hours after the acquittal of the cop who killed Eleanor Bumpurs. An elderly Black woman, she was shot while being evicted from her apartment.
March 19, 1962
DENVER—The International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, long under red-baiting pressure by both government and right-wing labor officials, scored a major victory last week when the U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver reversed the conviction of seven present and past leaders of the union. All had been charged with conspiracy to defraud the government under the non-Communist affidavit clause of the Taft-Hartley Act.John Clark, Mine-Mill president, hailed the decision as “a victory not only for the union but for the protection of all labor’s rights and civil liberties.”
Since 1949, when the right-wing CIO officials expelled the entire membership of Mine-Mill, the government has been relentlessly harassing the union.
March 27, 1937
Tens of thousands of workers and farmers throughout the country have been involved in strikes and other forms of organized protest against curtailment of W.P.A. [Works Progress Administration] projects, according to statistics compiled by the Labor Research Association.An incomplete tabulation by L.R.A. shows that between November 15, 1936, and January 15, this year, there were over 200 such actions in 31 states.
Organizations involved covered a wide list, including branches of the Workers’ Alliance, farmers’ holiday associations, central labor unions, building trades councils, A.F. of L. locals, project workers’ unions, and associations of professionals and white collar workers.
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