Vol. 78/No. 26 July 21, 2014
July 21, 1989
LONDON — Some 600,000 workers in Britain were out on strike during the week that began July 10. This included most dockworkers, who started an indefinite strike on July 10; 75,000 rail workers and 20,000 London Underground subway workers, who together held their fourth in a series of weekly 24-hour actions; and a half million local government employees who struck for two days as part of a three-week series of escalating actions. It was the first national strike in the history of the government workers’ union, the National Association of Local Government Officers.Also on strike are 1,200 steel erectors in London. And construction workers on 30 oil platforms in the North Sea fields have engaged in sit-ins and sporadic strikes over the last six weeks.
The government has set up a special committee chaired by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to counter the spreading strikes.
July 13, 1964
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, the three young civil-rights workers missing in Mississippi, must now be presumed dead — lynched by police and white supremacists.The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, spearhead of the fight for justice there charges that “Mississippi law-enforcement officials and private citizens are engaged in a conspiracy to harass and intimidate local Negroes and civil-rights workers through cross burnings, beatings, shootings and illegal arrests.”
Despite these well-known facts, President Johnson refuses to intervene to protect the lives of Negroes and civil-rights workers in Mississippi.
In the face of mounting terror and the federal government’s failure to provide minimum protection, Negroes in Mississippi have the right and duty to arm and organize themselves for self-defense.
July 21, 1939
CHICAGO — In the second week of the nationwide W.P.A. [Works Progress Administration] strike a special meeting of the Chicago Building Trades Council unanimously adopted an order for all building trades workers representing 212 locals to cease work on 65 projects.This official action brought out many additional workers to swell the strikers’ ranks in the city to over five thousand. At the same time the Sewer and Tunnel Miners’ Union has called out its skilled workers and have thus compelled the closing of this project which employs in the neighborhood of 10,000.
The official strike figures handed out by the administration in the person of Charles E. Miner, State W.P.A. administrator, estimates 12,250 strikers in Illinois, exclusive of Chicago. Yet, in the same breath, Miner announces that 25,000 W.P.A. workers will be severed from their projects unless they report to work at once.
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