Vol. 76/No. 36 October 8, 2012
October 9, 1987
At their September 23 meeting, paperworkers on strike in Jay, Maine, decided to become “labor ambassadors” in a campaign to spread the word about their battle against the takeback demands of International Paper Co.This decision provides an opening for the union movement throughout North America to throw its weight into building solidarity with the paperworkers’ fight.
On strike against the industry giant since June 16, the Jay fighters stand shoulder to shoulder with other members of the United Paperworkers International Union who are resisting IP’s concession demands
At International Paper in Jay, workers know acceptance of the company’s takebacks would mean the loss of several thousand dollars a year for each worker. It would also signify crippling blows to seniority and safety.
October 8, 1962
If America’s youth want a hero really worthy of emulation they don’t have to look into outer space or back to the legends of the old West, they need only look to the modern South, to Oxford, Mississippi, to James Howard Meredith. For it was this 29-year-old student who made this racist clique that rules Mississippi back down.There are many forces in the Mississippi drama, but the racists’ main hope of stopping the integration of the University of Mississippi lay in getting Meredith to quit.
The judges in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals could not have done less than order Meredith admitted to “Ole Miss.” If they hadn’t they would have destroyed the image of the federal courts. President Kennedy could not have done less than he did—or later than he did it.
October 9, 1937
On Sunday, October 3rd, Ernest R. McKinney, New York organizer of the Socialist Party (Left Wing) announced to the press that the Party had nominated James P. Cannon as its candidate for Mayor of New York. This action was the response of the revolutionary socialists in New York to the sell-out to the LaGuardia machine engineered by every other working class party in the City.Cannon’s nomination will give the militant workers of New York an opportunity to express their determination to break with capitalist politics in all of its forms. The platform on which Cannon will run stresses the fundamental class character of the issue confronting the workers of New York, and the absolute necessity of solving them in the only possible way: by the independent class struggle of the workers for socialism.
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