[blind-democracy] 25, 50, and 75 Years Ago
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Vol. 80/No. 15 April 18, 2016
25, 50, and 75 Years Ago
April 19, 1991
As many as a million Kurds, fleeing intense air and surface bombardment
by the Iraqi military, were made refugees the first week of April.
President Saddam Hussein announced April 7 that the rebellion by the
Kurdish people had been defeated.
Facing a fierce onslaught that included napalm attacks by the Iraqi
regime’s forces, Kurds headed for Turkey and Iran at the end of March
and beginning of April. In sub-zero temperatures and cold rain, the
refugees traveled aboard huge trucks, by mule-back, or squatting on
blankets on top of a gasoline truck.
Thousands without gas for vehicles set out on foot, moving down
hillsides in the first stages of a 100-mile trek. One crossing alone on
the Iranian border was said to have a 45-mile-long column of refugees.
April 18, 1966
The striking grape pickers of Delano, Calif., won an important victory
on April 5 when Schenley Industries Inc. issued a statement recognizing
the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) as the representative of
the workers in the Schenley vineyards. They agreed that the contract
negotiations will be held within 30 days.
Cesar Chavez, director of the NFWA, emphasized the importance of the
victory, pointing out that this is the first time in the history of the
U.S., outside of Hawaii, that union organization of farm labor has been
recognized.
The agreement does not terminate the strike, however, for Schenley
employs only about 500 of the 4,500 striking agricultural workers.
April 19, 1941
One thing about the neutrality pact that Stalin signed with Japan on
April 13 is as clear as daylight: Stalin, by means of the pact, has
dealt a severe blow to the struggle of the Chinese people against
Japanese imperialism.
Stalin’s mouthpiece in the United States, the Daily Worker, can
shamelessly assert that “out of the present Soviet-Japanese pact the
Chinese people will gain.” But the unalterable fact remains that in the
midst of a life-and-death struggle on the part of the Chinese people to
expel the Japanese invader, Stalin signs a pact with that same invader.
The Daily Worker does not attempt to explain just how the Chinese people
will gain out of the pact. It makes that mere assertion and wants
everybody to be satisfied with it. But not even dupes of Stalin can
swallow that.
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