Vol. 78/No. 36 October 13, 2014
October 13, 1989
MIAMI — More than 100 people — most of them Cuban-born — demonstrated here September 30 to demand a halt to Television Martí and for the normalization of relations with Cuba.“This is the first of many such activities we hope to hold,” Andrés Gómez told the protesters. Gómez is the editor of the Spanish language magazine Areíto and a leader of the Antonio Maceo Brigade, a group of young Cubans who support the revolution and work to promote normal relations between the United States and Cuba.
TV Martí is part of the U.S.-sponsored Voice of America and is scheduled to begin broadcasting to Cuba in November. It is also backed by the right-wing Cuban-American National Foundation.
October 12, 1964
OCT. 7 — Racist violence against Negroes in Mississippi continues in the absence of adequate law enforcement — local or federal. Despite indictment of some police officials of Philadelphia, Miss., scene of this summer’s slaying of the three civil-rights workers, on federal charges carrying a maximum penalty of ten years, and despite the arrest of some bombers in McComb, racist terrorists in Meridian Oct. 3 shot at civil-rights workers sleeping in a Negro home. The next day a church in Vicksburg, which had been used by voter-registration workers, was bombed.In McComb, where there have been months of wholesale bombings, church-burnings and attacks on Negroes, federal authorities have been forced to take steps against the wave of terror.
October 13, 1939
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wartime boom profits, corresponding to the 150% returns obtained by American industry during the last imperialist bloodbath, and a quick emergence from its ten-year depression are now an immediate and happy prospect for American capitalism. Government officials, scanning financial reports, already note a ten-year high in industrial activity with the future of more than a score of basic industries more auspicious than at any time since 1927.All important labor legislation will be scrapped and labor’s voice in democratic decision will be annulled “for the sake of the nation,” while the industrialists and financiers, deprived of exorbitant profits during the last eight years, will be appeased by the same profit-making spree that they had from 1915-1918.
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