Vol. 78/No. 27 July 28, 2014
July 28, 1989
Some 150,000 Soviet coal miners on strike throughout western Siberia were joined by thousands of miners in the Ukraine, the Soviet Union’s largest coal region, on July 17.Mines in more than 70 coalfields in the Ukraine’s Donets Basin are shut down as well as most mines in the Kuzmetsk Basin in Siberia. The miners protested food shortages and insufficient pay and vacation time. They wanted better medical care, housing, and the right to set production levels and improve working conditions on the job.
Other demands included an end to greater economic benefits awarded to Communist Party officials, a revised constitution allowing for more individual freedoms, repair of environmentally damaged mining areas, and a law strengthening the right of unions to strike.
July 27, 1964
CLARKSDALE, Miss. — The discovery of two more mutilated bodies of Negro citizens of this terror-ridden stronghold of racists has prompted new calls for federal investigations.Charles Evers, NAACP state field secretary and brother of the murdered Medgar Evers, said 14 Negroes have recently disappeared, been slain, or died mysteriously in rural Mississippi.
“Most of these murders were committed by local police officers,” Evers said. He also declared: “The FBI hasn’t been able to get enough evidence to put anyone in jail. You really begin to wonder, what good are they? What are they doing here?”
In a letter to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Evers expressed extreme shock at his recent statement that “lawlessness in the South is no worse than lawlessness in the North.”
July 29, 1939
The anti-war sentiment of the Indian masses is one phase of the struggle for independence from Great Britain. Equally significant is the spread of strikes around economic issues.On that front, the workers of India are in the vanguard of the independence struggle. In Bombay alone, 50,000 night shift textile workers are on strike. Lockouts and the closing of night shifts are spreading. The textile strike is extending rapidly to Ahmedabad, Sholapur, Cawnpore, Jubbulpore, etc., and may soon assume nationwide proportions involving hundreds of thousands of textile workers. These workers are engaged in conflict not only with the despotic British government, but also with the anti-labor actions of the Popular Front Congress ministries. In many cases the strikes are directed against native Indian capitalists and mill-owners.
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