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

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Vol. 79/No. 40 November 9, 2015

25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

November 9, 1990
NEW YORK — Some 2,200 workers have responded to a lockout by the New York Daily News here by declaring themselves on strike. Nine unions at the newspaper set up picket lines October 25 in an attempt to stop the company’s union-busting drive.
The 71-year-old daily, with a circulation of 1.2 million copies a day prior to the strike, was the third most widely read newspaper in the United States.

Over the past months, the Daily News has spent $24 million in preparation for a strike. Strikebreakers have been trained and housed at the Ramada Inn in North Bergen [New Jersey] since April.

Several issues of the paper have been produced with the scab workforce, but many newsstands are so far refusing to carry the daily.

November 8, 1965
DELANO, Calif. — Grapes of wrath are being trod in the vineyards of California’s Central Valley as once again a section of the agricultural workers struggle for union recognition and higher wages. Beatings, jailings, and gun fire have been the growers’ response to a strike in the Delano area that is now entering its third month.
The main core of strikers are some 1,500 Filipino farm workers organized by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO. Unlike most California harvest workers, these Filipinos are not migrants but live in the same area year round in labor camps owned by the big business growers.

Working about ten months harvesting and pruning vines, the Filipinos average $2,000 a year. This is $1,000 below the government’s official poverty level.

November 9, 1940
Because they wrote a letter protesting the intolerable Jim Crow conditions in the U.S. Navy and sent it to the Negro press, 15 young colored messmen on the U.S.S. Philadelphia have been clapped into the brig, according to wires received this week by the Pittsburgh Courier.
They are being punished according to the Courier, “because they used the democratic process to appeal against their mistreatment.”

In their letter of protest these boys had related the story of discrimination against them as Negroes on the ship, how their job opportunities were curtailed and their chances for advance in pay and rank far more limited than those of the white sailors.

They were treated as “sea-going bell hops, chambermaids and dishwashers,” their work “limited to waiting on tables and making beds for the officers.”

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