[blind-democracy] 25, 50 and 75 Years Ago
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Vol. 82/No. 21 May 28, 2018
25, 50 and 75 Years Ago
May 31, 1993
The Clinton administration is pushing ahead on its plans to organize a
military intervention in Haiti. The 500-member police force that
Washington hopes to assemble under the banner of the United Nations is
not intended to end repression and restore democratic rights in Haiti.
Its real aim will be to ensure stability in that Caribbean country under
a government favorable to the interests of U.S. big business. Working
people should oppose these moves.
The hypocrisy of Washington’s claims of concern for the Haitian people
is demonstrated by its callous treatment of refugees fleeing the reign
of terror of Haiti’s military dictators. The U.S. military has been
carrying out piracy on the open sea for a year now — intercepting
refugees in their boats, forcibly returning them to the island where
many face reprisals or death.
May 31, 1968
May 24 — Before [French President Charles] de Gaulle spoke today, the
general deliberately deferred his appearance as long as possible despite
the enormous pressure on him to do something about what is already being
described in the press as a “social revolution.”
De Gaulle’s strategy was to “play it cool” in the expectation that the
enormous strike wave would lose its momentum as people grew fearful of
what might come next. Thus choosing the psychological moment, he could
appear on the television screens once more as the “savior of France” and
thus retrieve the situation.
The general left several items out of his calculations. Instead of
subsiding, the strike wave deepened and spread. Some 10,000,000 workers
out of a labor force of just under 15,000,000 are now on strike, more
than 2,000 factories being occupied.
May 29, 1943
AKRON, OHIO — Outraged by the recent decision of the War Labor Board,
40,000 rubber workers in the Goodrich, Firestone and Goodyear companies
continued their protest strike into the third day.
After almost a year’s delay the WLB handed down a decision on May 21,
granting only a three cent an hour wage increase to the rubber workers,
and flatly rejected their demands for night shift bonuses. A similar
angry reaction to the WLB ruling occurred at the Firestone plant, where
almost all the workers quit work shortly after the news of the decision
was out.
The walkouts were spontaneous. As the news of the WLB decision spread
like wildfire through various plant buildings of both Firestone and
Goodrich, department meetings were held. Rank and file workers denounced
the unjust ruling and threw down their tools.
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