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

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Vol. 81/No. 21 May 29, 2017

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

May 29, 1992
NEW ROCHELLE, New York — Chants of “Union! Union! Union!” rang out as dozens of angry New York Times truck drivers picketed the newspaper’s wholesale distribution plant here to stop the delivery of the Sunday paper by newly hired scabs.
“The Times is out to bust our union,” said Edward Ellis, a driver with 22 years of service.

By a resounding majority vote May 6, members of the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers’ Union rejected contracts that would have dealt a big blow to working conditions and reduced wages.

While the strike involves only the 220 Times drivers, members of the NMDU know a successful union-busting move would embolden the other media owners to follow suit. Workers from the Daily News, veterans of a militant strike themselves, have joined the picket lines together with other unionists.

May 29, 1967
NEW YORK — One of the first debates on Vietnam to be officially sponsored by a union was held here May 17. A hundred people turned out for the open forum on “Labor and the War in Vietnam” which was sponsored by Local 384 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The panel included two speakers in favor of the war and two against. All were union officials.

One member of the audience asked what the union movement could do to oppose the war. Ed Grey, an official of the New Jersey United Auto Workers, answered by saying, “Labor can do a great deal — including sponsoring meetings like this.” Pointing to inflation, government strikebreaking, and high taxes, Al Viani, of Local 371 of AFSCME, commented that, “Labor has a direct stake in ending the war…We need to show where we stand.”

May 30, 1942
LOS ANGELES, Cal. — In a move unprecedented in U.S. history, American citizens are being taken from their homes and transported to hastily constructed concentration camps.

From Los Angeles, caravans guarded by army jeeps daily bear Japanese-American families to the desolate Owens River Valley.

Considerable pressure for the ousting of Japanese-Americans came from California Chambers of Commerce, the Bank of America, and the reactionary Associated Farmers. These groups see in the Japanese-American farmer not a military menace, but an obstacle to their complete domination of California agriculture. Taking advantage of the situation to demand their ousting in the name of “national defense,” California bankers hope to seize control of the truck gardening fields vacated by the Japanese-Americans.

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