Vol. 79/No. 17 May 11, 2015
May 11, 1990
MANCHESTER, England — On April 25 heavily armed squads of police and prison officers moved to end the 25-day protest at Strangeways prison here. After a long and tense day, the protesters were forced to give themselves up.The action, the longest prison protest in Britain, succeeded in focusing attention on the barbaric conditions that exist in British prisons and elicited broad sympathy. The four-week protest involved prisoners in 20 of Britain’s 125 prisons.
Strangeways, located just to the north of Manchester’s center, was designed to hold 970 prisoners. The prison population had risen by 150 to 1,650 in the past few months.
May 10, 1965
May 1 — Fidel Castro delivered a blistering attack on the United States today in response to the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic and in commemoration of May Day.“Few actions have so exposed the criminality and cynicism of U.S. imperialism,” Castro stated in reference to the Marine landings in Santo Domingo.
He pointed out that the invasion of Santo Domingo violated every treaty that the U.S. had made with Latin American nations. Answering the U.S. lie that the Marines had been landed to save U.S. citizens, Castro pointed out that in the days of civil strife before the landing, where many Dominicans had been killed, not one American citizen had even been injured.
May 11, 1940
Technological unemployment, threatening the livelihood of every worker in the steel industry, has fixed itself as the most pressing and permanent problem confronting the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Since 1926 when the continuous hot-strip mill was first introduced, 100,000 employees have lost their jobs with the gradual displacement of the old hand mill for the more efficient hot-strip mill. Today 15 men in the hot-strip mills can produce as much as 100 in the hand mills.Gradually the steel workers employed and unemployed have begun to realize what is happening and the murmurs of discontent have been changed into a new cry: “A Six Hour Day with Eight Hour Pay.”
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