March 6, 2000
This past week the government arrested Mariano Faget, an official of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Miami, and charged him with espionage on behalf of the Cuban government. They then demanded Cuban diplomat José Imperatori at the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, D.C., leave the U.S. for his association with Faget.
The Cuban government so far refuses to obey the order. Personnel at the Interests Section are barred by direct order from President Fidel Castro from engaging in spy activity. Castro said in a statement: “If we asked the U.S. Interests Section in Cuba to withdraw all those officers who actively participate in illegal and very undiplomatic actions, then practically very few — or none —would be left.”
Working people and youth can join in condemning Washington’s moves and demanding normalization of relations with Cuba.
March 7, 1975
LOS ANGELES — Organizing activity has begun for a statewide unemployment protest march called by the California AFL-CIO. The urgent need for the demonstration was underscored by a report in the California AFL-CIO News that in January there were 921,200 officially listed as unemployed in California, a rate of 9.3 percent of the work force. The unemployed rolls have increased by 31 percent in the past year.
NEW YORK— A march on Washington to protest unemployment has been called by a group of New York City unions. The Public Employee Press reported that “momentum is growing throughout the country” for a march on Washington. This call can pave the way for a show of strength by the labor movement. Such actions, relying on labor’s own strength instead of the capitalist Democratic and Republican parties, offer the only way to stop the layoffs.
March 6, 1950
Leading locals of the United Auto Workers and other unions are calling for a national conference of all labor organizations and a nation-wide 24-hour general strike to aid the embattled coal miners.
Angered by Truman’s Taft-Hartley injunction against the miners and the “contempt” trial of the United Mine Workers now being heard in Washington, more and more sections of the labor movement are rallying to aid the miners’ magnificent struggle.
Overwhelming and enthusiastic response has greeted delegations of striking mine workers from Ohio and West Virginia who have visited Detroit, Flint and other cities. Their slogans — “We’re with this to the end!” “No Contract-No Work!” and the “Truman-Taft-Hartley Law” — have been welcomed uproariously. The labor solidarity being shown by the auto workers should be followed by every union in the land.