Vol. 77/No. 15 April 22, 2013
April 22, 1988
MIAMI — A spirited march of 150 people took place here April 2 to protest the dumping of toxic waste in Haiti. The demonstrators, mainly from the Haitian community, marched through downtown Miami to the Federal Building and past the Haitian consulate.Members of Committee Veye-Yo (“Watch Them”), which organized the action, handed out fliers in English and Spanish that explained that more than 3,000 tons of hazardous toxic incinerator ash from Philadelphia had been dumped in Gonaïves, Haiti. The waste poses a severe health threat to humans and animals in the area.
When it was discovered that the ash being unloaded in Gonaïves was not fertilizer, the ship was ordered to leave.
April 22, 1963
PARIS — The nationalization of big properties of both European and Algerian landholders and the announcement of decrees definitively establishing Workers’ Management Committees, Workers’ Councils and Workers’ Assemblies have been received with enormous enthusiasm throughout Algeria.In a nation-wide tour following announcement of the new measures, Ben Bella was greeted with celebrations reminiscent of those when independence was won last July. Entire populations of towns and villages turned out to hail the head of government.
“We will never agree to letting our country serve as an arena for the testing of bombs. The French government has been warned.”
April 23,1938
LOS ANGELES — The Venice local of the Mexican Union of Agricultural workers in Southern California voted unanimously to strike if their demands for closed shop and a wage increase were not met by the Palm-Venice Growers Association within eight days.The union meeting was attended by 150 workers who represented a large section of the harvesters of the local lettuce crop.
No agreement has been reached, but negotiations are continuing.
Because of the permanent poverty of these workers, the use of race prejudice against them, the extreme brutality of police action in all of their strike struggles, it is necessary to ask workers everywhere to be prepared to come to their assistance.
Front page (for this issue) |
Home |
Text-version home