Vol. 77/No. 42 November 25, 2013
November 25, 1988
Just one week after the November 8 elections, 80,000 farmers received notices giving them 45 days to show cause why their farms should not be taken from them.The notices from the Farmers Home Administration were the result of Reagan administration regulations that became effective October 14. The warnings were sent to 40 percent of the farms that have received FmHA loans.
The latest threats to working farmers come in the midst of an upturn in the capitalist business cycle that has stuffed the coffers of big capitalist farm operations.
Unions and other organizations should join farmers in protesting the foreclosures. In the wake of the drought, an immediate moratorium on debt payments is needed.
November 25, 1963
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18 — Several thousand members of the Communications Workers of America in this area have been on strike since Sept. 18 against the General Telephone Company. The union is asking for the same working conditions presently enjoyed by employees of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph.Gen Tel’s phone rates have for years been higher than those of Pacific Telephone. Yet it still refuses to pay its employees equal to those at Pacific.
This is the first strike against Gen Tel in 10 years. Gen Tel has no friends in this battle. It faces strikers who are in a strong moral position and an antagonistic public which wants to see its phones put in order, a state the phones have seldom been in before.
November 26, 1938
From every sounding board of the administration, from President Roosevelt down to Mayor LaGuardia, through the press, and over the radio, the American people are being prepared for the greatest armament program in history.On Nov. 15 Roosevelt proclaimed the new slogan of “continental defense.” He explained that this meant that the land, naval, and air forces of the United States would be brought up to the level needed for action anywhere from the Arctic Circle to Cape Horn.
The same day, Roosevelt engaged in a bit of convenient indignation against the anti-Semitic pogroms in Germany. What he is interested in is the utilization of the legitimate indignation of the American masses over the Nazi terror to create an effective war psychology.
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