Vol. 77/No. 28 July 22, 2013
July 22, 1988
FENTON, Mo. — Thousands of auto workers stopped production at two Chrysler Corp. assembly plants here in a series of walkouts in late June. The workers were protesting the intolerable conditions in the plants during a heat wave that caused temperatures inside to rise to well over 100 degrees. One worker died, and scores of others became ill before the workers’ actions forced the company to back down on overtime demands and make other relief provisions.The protests began June 21 in the paint shop of Plant 1, where the temperature reached 115 degrees. Company officials intended to run the line as usual, with nine hours of production and no additional relief time or other measures. The paint-shop workers walked out of the plant an hour and a half after start-up, and the rest of the workers followed soon after.
July 22, 1963
The five-day European Conference of Non-governmental Aid to Algeria, held last month in Algiers, was important in more ways than one. Of primary significance was its bringing together leading figures from various tendencies of the European left who obtained an accurate picture of the needs of the Algerian people in its heroic efforts to rebuild the country.In his speech to the closing sessions of the conference, [President] Ben Bella outlined the staggering problems facing the Algerian people after seven and a half years of struggle against French imperialism.
“Algeria had 2,000,000 Algerians, who had been in what were called ‘regroupment camps,’ and 500,000 refugees who came back from Tunisia and Morocco with absolutely nothing, scarcely clothed, lacking especially anything with which to work in their fields.”
July 23, 1938
AKRON, Ohio — A campaign to provide supplementary relief for W.P.A. and industrial employees was begun here this week by the Akron C.I.O. council and Goodyear Local, United Rubber Workers of America.By mobilizing the labor movement behind this fight, union leaders seek to revitalize the unions and to alleviate the suffering of thousands of families living on sub-existence levels.
Over 110,000 of the 225,000 inhabitants of Akron are on one kind of relief or another, and thousands of rubber workers are working less than two days a week, thereby making a system of supplementary relief indispensable for the sheer existence of the people.
The campaign is not being made as a substitute for jobs, or adequate wages. Union leaders see it as a good supplementary move to fight against the effects of the social crisis.
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