Vol. 77/33 September 23, 2013
September 23, 1988
DES MOINES, Sept. 14 — More than 70 people gathered at the Mark Curtis Defense Committee office here tonight to protest today’s conviction of Curtis on frame-up charges of third-degree sexual abuse and first-degree burglary. Those present vowed to expand the international campaign to get out the truth about this defense effort, led by the Des Moines-based defense committee.Rally speakers charged that Curtis didn’t get a fair trial. He was presumed guilty from the beginning despite the overwhelming evidence of his innocence. He was unable to introduce key evidence that could further discredit the prosecution’s case. The judge rejected the jury’s request to have trial testimony read to it during its deliberations, and the composition of the jury precluded the possibility that the verdict was decided by a jury of Curtis’ peers.
September 23, 1963
A mass meeting held at the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church on Sept. 16 was guarded by volunteer corps of Negroes who regularly checked all parts of the building, inside and out, for explosives such as those which killed four young Negro girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church the previous day.The self-defense measures taken by Birmingham’s Negroes constitute the only protection they have. All the official “law-enforcement” bodies not only offer them no protection, but are their worst enemies and a constant threat to their safety.
This makes it urgent that throughout the country Negroes and all whites who are really for civil rights immediately put pressure on President Kennedy to force him to deputize these Negro self-defense guards and send federal troops to occupy Alabama.
September 24, 1938
New York’s 100 percent effective drivers’ strike is added testimony to the fact that the men rolling the nation’s commerce over the highways and in the cities are leading the labor movement in organization and militancy.Within a few days after negotiations with employers for a revision of the present agreement bogged down, strikers went into action and tied up the city’s traffic tighter than a drum. The strike has been called “wild cat” because it was called into being by a ground-swell of rank-and-file pressure.
This description of the strike is entirely misleading and calculated only to break it up. The overwhelming majority of Locals 807, 282, and 816 have voted for the strike. The unanimity of the walkout has compelled city officials to formally request of the union that it allow delivery of newsprint.
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