Vol. 81/No. 33      September 11, 2017

 

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

 
September 11, 1992
LORDSTOWN, Ohio — Some 2,400 members of the United Automobile Workers Local 1714 went on strike August 27 against the General Motors Corporation metal fabrications plant here.

UAW members put up picket lines over job security, outsourcing, and health and safety issues. This is the first strike by the union local since 1975. Workers on the picket line were upbeat. The Lordstown plant makes key components needed at other GM operations.

An August 28 Wall Street Journal article characterized the strike as “the first blow in what’s expected to be a bruising battle over job security between the auto maker and the United Auto Workers union.”

September 11, 1967
The Soviet bureaucrats have sentenced another writer to jail, thus violating their own dictum that the 50th year of the Russian Revolution should present an unruffled exterior to the outside world.

They have [sentenced] a young writer, 25-year-old Vladimir Bukovsky, to three years in jail.

The intensifying conflict between intellectuals and apparatchiks reflects in an unclear and distorted way the aspirations of the Soviet working masses for proletarian democracy, an end to privileges for bureaucrats, an end to arbitrary treatment for workers. It is an augury of much deeper, more significant social conflicts to come.

September 12, 1942
The Negro March-on-Washington movement will hold a national conference in Detroit on Sept. 26-27 to decide if and when a march to the nation’s capital will be held.

A. Philip Randolph, national director of the movement, announced that President Roosevelt had refused to meet with Randolph and a number of other prominent Negro leaders to discuss racial discrimination and attacks on Negro rights.

While Roosevelt is very well aware of present conditions and the Negro people’s protests against continued discrimination and growing Jim Crow terrorism, his autocratic refusal to meet with Randolph indicates that he has no intention of doing anything about them.  
 
 
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