[blind-democracy] 25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

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Vol. 79/No. 42 November 23, 2015


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago


November 23, 1990
Announcing new deployments to the Middle East November 8 that will double U.S. troop, tank, warship, and aircraft strength in the region, U.S. President George Bush said that the forces will give them “an adequate offensive military option” to invade Iraq.
He praised British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s earlier statement in London in the House of Commons that either Iraqi President Saddam Hussein “gets out of Kuwait soon, or we and our allies will remove him by force, and he will go down to defeat with all its consequences.”

Some 30 countries led by governments in Washington, London, and Paris, have already amassed 500,000 troops and extensive fire-power in and around Saudi Arabia.

November 22, 1965
Henry Austan, a leader of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, gave an interview to The Militant while in New York on Nov. 13.
The Deacons were first organized in Jonesboro, a small town in northern Louisiana, on July 10, 1964. Civil rights activity had begun there, and the Klan was using terror tactics against the movement. The Klan rode through the black community shooting into houses; they dragged people from their homes and threatened them. One night a 25-car Klan caravan drove through led by a police car.

That was too much. Ernest Thomas and two others called together a group of ten veterans of the Korean war and World War II. They organized the Deacons for Defense and Justice.

November 23, 1940
DOWNEY, Calif., Nov. 17 — 3,200 production workers of Vultee Aircraft Inc. have struck the first major blow at the sub-human conditions in the aircraft industries.
Mass picket lines have had the huge Vultee plant shut tight since 5 A.M. Thursday, when the company declined further consideration of wage increases from the present 50 cent hourly minimum. The union committee of Amalgamated Aviation Local 683, United Auto Workers-CIO, had conducted futile negotiations for nine weeks.

This is the first strike in any major aircraft plant working on government war orders. Vultee has a back-log of $84,000,000 in orders for planes for both the U.S. and Great Britain.


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