[blind-democracy] 25, 50 and 75 Years Ago
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Vol. 82/No.14 April 9, 2018
25, 50 and 75 Years Ago
April 12, 1993
LONDON — Three thousand British workers, one-third of them coal miners,
marched and rallied here March 29 to protest pit closures. The
demonstration, called by the Trades Union Congress, the British labor
federation, coincided with a debate in the Parliament on a government
plan to close several mines. The closures would eliminate up to 30,000
jobs of miners and 70,000 other workers in rail, engineering, power, and
other industries.
The same day, the Parliament voted to immediately close 19 mines,
leaving 12 others operating for now that had been scheduled to close.
The TUC action was a prelude to a 24-hour strike called for Friday,
April 2, by the National Union of Mine Workers, the Rail, Maritime and
Transport Workers, London bus workers, and others to protest job losses.
April 8, 1968
MEMPHIS, March 8 — Hundreds of Black people were injured and one Black
youth was killed here today when police made a brutal attack on a
peaceful march of more than 15,000 people demonstrating in support of
striking sanitation workers.
At Hamilton High School large numbers of Black students left school to
join the demonstration, and cops entered the school grounds to prevent
them from doing so. They started to club students. There were reports of
cops shooting tear gas and Mace at high school students.
Dr. Martin Luther King had come to Memphis that morning to lead the
massive demonstration in support of the 1,300 striking sanitation workers.
After police suppressed the demonstration, Mayor Henry Loeb called 4,000
national guardsmen into Memphis. A 7 p.m. curfew was imposed.
April 10, 1943
Those workers who have been following the countless scandals of World
War II now know that part of the money taken from their wages in the
form of the “Victory tax” and other taxes goes back into the coffers of
Big Business.
While Washington sets down a “Little Steel” formula for freezing
workers’ wages, “Big Steel” is handed out billions. And not they alone.
The Aluminum barons, the auto kings, the Banking tycoons and others are
also getting in on the Big Steal — the greatest raid on the U.S.
Treasury in history.
How can this menace of the monopolists be removed? There is one really
effective way: Organize politically to drive out the Looters’ Legion!
Expropriate the war industries, shipbuilding, steel-making, power
plants, aluminum factories! Let them be operated under workers control!
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