Vol. 78/No. 12 March 31, 2014
March 31, 1989
The Machinists’ strike against Eastern Airlines is having an impact on working people throughout the country. They are inspired by the strikers’ decision to fight for their rights and dignity, and by the unflinching support of the Eastern pilots and flight attendants for the Machinists’ action.This is giving added momentum to the national march for abortion rights, which will take place in Washington, D.C., April 9.
Part and parcel of the rulers’ offensive has been an attack on democratic rights — from expanding use of the death penalty and mandatory drug testing on the job, to wholesale violations of immigrant workers’ rights and the campaign to overturn women’s right to abortion.
A big turnout for the April 9 march will not only strengthen the struggle to keep abortion legal — it will also aid the Eastern strikers in their fight.
March 30, 1964
Behind the newspaper headlines about “Rioting Negroes in Jacksonville, Florida” facts are already discernible which show that the main perpetrators of the violence are the mayor and the police department.When Negro groups in Jacksonville began a campaign of protest against segregation in hotels and restaurants, the racist mayor went on television to announce his “get tough” campaign. He swore in 500 firemen as special cops to deal with Negro demonstrators.
Clubbings of Negroes and mass arrests began. The students and people of the neighborhood fought back with stones, bottles, etc. forcing police finally to withdraw.
The mayor and the white-supremacists got more than they bargained for. The Negro people today will not take such treatment lying down. They fight back.
March 31, 1939
On July 28, 1938 District Court Judge Frank E. Reed of Minneapolis handed down an order requiring that General Drivers Union Local 544 immediately surrender for inspection all its books, records and correspondence to attorneys for five finks who had asked for such an inspection, in order the better to prepare a case against the union.It is a sad fact that, in the case of most unions, such a union-busting order of a judge would have been obeyed, and the finks, obviously agents of the Associated Industries, would have had their way.
But this was the famous Minneapolis Truckdrivers Union, veteran of the great strikes of 1934 which unionized the whole city. Instead of surrendering its books, the union issued a public denunciation of the judge, meaning the union would not turn its books over to the finks.
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