Vol. 76/No. 34 September 24, 2012
September 25, 1987
TORONTO—Ten thousand auto workers walked off the job at Chrysler Canada September 15 to fight for their contract demands on the picket lines.A central issue in the strike is the union’s insistence that pensions be protected from inflation. The Canadian Auto Workers want pension benefits indexed so that they rise when the cost of living goes up.
In negotiations with General Motors in 1984 and with Chrysler in 1985, Canadian auto workers rejected some of the concessions the auto companies were able to impose on United Auto Workers members in the United States. This included winning increases in the hourly pay rate instead of accepting lump-sum payments.
Chrysler Canada has put forward concession demands. They include changes in work rules, job classifications, and seniority rights, as well as cuts in medical and dental benefits.
September 24, 1962
President John F. Kennedy is planning new blows against the Cuban people while deferring outright U.S. military interventions in Cuba until he thinks he can get away with it.The new anti-Cuba moves include increased pressure on Latin American governments to develop some form of diplomatic cover for U.S. intervention; pressure on Western nations to boycott Cuba; and giving the green light to counter-revolutionary Cuban groups in the U.S. and Puerto Rico to increase their hit and run raids.
There is not a single voice of fairness or reason, opposed to the preparation for crushing the Cuban Revolution, heard in the entire Congress. There is only disagreement over when and how it should be crushed.
The United Nations building in New York City was picketed Sept. 17 by over 500 persons protesting U.S. threats against Cuba.
September 25, 1937
The corrosion of the very foundations of the Soviet Union by the Stalinist police regime is increasingly exposed to view by the wave of trials. These trials occur with such almost monotonous regularity that one picks up the paper wondering only who Stalin’s next victims will be.The bureaucratic methods of planning and the usurpation of special privileges by the Stalinist ruling caste have brought Russian economy to the brink of disaster.
The Stalinist bureaucracy acts as the greatest disrupter not only of the economic system but of the political and social system in the USSR. The completely democratic methods of the October Revolution in the handling of the national question served to tie the national republics firmly together in a close economic union. Stalinism acts as a centrifugal force, driving them apart.
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