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25, 50 and 75 Years Ago
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Vol. 84/No. 8
March 2, 2020
March 6, 1995
PEORIA, Illinois — Members of United Auto Workers on strike against
Caterpillar in central Illinois continue to voice their resolve to keep
up the fight
until they can go back with a contract and their union intact. While 20
to 30 percent of union members have crossed the picket line, the vast
majority
did so in the first month of the strike last June. Since then all of the
company’s attempts to get large numbers of strikers to cross have failed.
“We’ll stay out as long as it takes,” said Charlie Holt, a Decatur striker.
“Cat is using union-busting tactics,” said Rick Vespa, a striker at the
Mossville plant. “The two-tier is really a union-busting tactic, because
it tries
to divide the workforce between young and old, economically, physically
and psychologically. It’s like psychological warfare.”
March 6, 1970
NEW YORK — Women’s liberation groups throughout the entire East Coast
are helping to build the first mass demonstration on abortion in the
history of the
United States, to be held here March 28.
Around 45 women’s liberation groups in New York are helping organize the
action. These include college and high school groups, as well as
citywide organizations
like Red Stockings and the New York chapter of the National Organization
for Women.
The demonstration is also sponsored by Women’s Abortion Project, the 350
plaintiffs in a suit to have the New York State abortion law declared
unconstitutional.
One of the purposes is to show through mass action the extent of the
support for this suit.
There are signs that the action is catching on outside New York City.
March 3, 1945
Vigilante violence, overtly encouraged by the capitalist press and slyly
winked at by the local authorities, raised its head in California last
week to
endanger the lives of Japanese-Americans returning to the West Coast
from inland concentration camps into which they were thrust shortly
after America’s
entry into the [second world] war.
For three years thousands of people against whom no crime has ever been
alleged have been forcibly deprived of their civil rights, kept
prisoners in stockades.
The farms and homes of many of them went under the auctioneer’s hammer.
Those who managed to hold on to their farms and homes and are presently
returning
are now becoming victims of a campaign of intimidation and violence
organized by the self-same reactionary business interests and their
vigilante hirelings.
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