Vol. 77/No. 16 April 29, 2013
April 29, 1988
JAY, Maine — In addition to hearing reports on the upcoming April 30 labor solidarity rally and news of the negotiations with International Paper Co., the union/family meeting of striking paperworkers here heard a plea for support for five victimized Kentucky coal miners.The miners, members of the United Mine Workers of America, have been framed up on charges stemming from the 1984-85 A.T. Massey Coal Co. strike. Four have been given long prison sentences. The fifth faces a second trial.
Appeals for support were read by Felix Jacques, executive vice president of United Paperworkers Local 14.
“When the company is losing, it encourages other people to do violence and blames the union,” Jacques said, referring to the frame-up charges stemming from the death of a scab coal hauler.
April 29, 1963
APRIL 24 — The Kennedy administration is persisting in its strategy of trying to destroy the Cuban Revolution but it is moving more cautiously than before and has apparently ruled out the idea of another invasion in the near future. This change in policy was analyzed by Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro in a speech delivered on the second anniversary of the victory over the Kennedy-organized invasion at Playa Giron.Castro’s April 20 speech was a devastating critique of the entire Kennedy record on Cuba. He analyzed the Bay of Pigs invasion, declaring that it had not failed because of poor military planning or the alleged lack of air cover. The essential reason for its failure, said Castro, was the superiority of revolutionary morale to that of the mercenaries.
April 30, 1938
International May Day is the day when the working class mobilizes its ranks in demonstration and review, and outlines its course of action for the period ahead.The ruling class throughout the world is on the offensive.
The standard of living of the workers, never very high, is being cut to the bone in one country after another. Capitalism in every country is in the death-grip of a crisis. The ruling class knows no way out of it, except to reduce the masses to an even lower level of existence.
May Day must be a reminder to the workers that they can solve their own problems, can smash the capitalist offensive and the reaction, can inaugurate a better life in a new society. They can rely only on their own strength, their own organization, and their own party!
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