Vol. 77/No. 24 June 24, 2013
June 24, 1988
South Korean student protesters won a victory June 14 when the government allowed a group of 1,300 students to travel to a town near the border with North Korea. They held a demonstration for reunification of the two countries.Seoul, the capital of South Korea, has been shaken for several weeks by a series of massive student demonstrations demanding reunification, the withdrawal of the 42,000 U.S. troops based in South Korea, and an end to U.S. economic and political domination of their country.
On June 10 more than 10,000 university students tried to march 35 miles north from Seoul to the town of Panmunjom near the DMZ. The young demonstrators were trying to meet up with a delegation of university students in North Korea, who had marched south to join them. The South Korean government’s response to the planned march was a police crackdown throughout Seoul.
June 24, 1963
The assassination of Medgar Evers, Mississippi NAACP field secretary, in Jackson proves that Negroes in the South have no police protection whatever. They cannot look for protection to the very racist police who are illegally clubbing them off the streets and jailing them for peacefully demonstrating for their rights.There are even strong indications of collusion between the Southern police and the racist terrorists of the civilian variety. In Jackson it was common knowledge that Medgar Evers was under constant surveillance by local police. His phones were tapped, his car was followed wherever he went.
But when Evers was murdered at 1:20 a.m., June 12, as he stepped from his car in front of his home, there were no police present. Why did Jackson cops refrain from tailing the Negro leader on just the night an assassin lay waiting in the bushes to shoot him down?
June 25, 1938
The inclusion of Puerto Rico in the Wages and Hours Bill passed at the last session of Congress is upsetting Puerto Rican employers. On June 17, “industrial leaders” in San Juan sent a radiogram to President Roosevelt protesting the application of the legislation to the island, and predicting “grave economic disturbances” as a result. Embroidery manufacturers in the United States, who send work to the island, had protested to Governor Winship that a 25-cent minimum wage would make it necessary to discontinue that practice.The needle trades in the island are a sweated industry carried on under homework conditions. Manufacturers in the United States ship the materials to Puerto Rico for distribution by agents to workers who do the finishing, and the complete products are shipped back to the United States. About half of the workers in the needle trades receive less than two cents an hour.
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