It was the first convocation of the campus community since May 1970, when hundreds of campuses closed down across the country in response to Nixon's invasion of Cambodia and the subsequent Kent and Jackson State killings. A convocation is viewed as an extraordinary event on the campus, and must be authorized by the chancellor or the university.

While calls for Nixon's resignation or impeachment received a thunderous response from the students, a broad range of issues were linked to the Nixon administration's policies around the world. Repeated mention was made of the history of administration lies in regard to U.S. aggression in Vietnam and the secret bombing of Cambodia.

The role of U.S. imperialism in the overturn of the Allende regime in Chile was denounced several times during the two and one-half hour meeting, each time evoking a strong response from the students. And the convocation was warned of impending U.S. military intervention in the Mideast.

November 8, 1948
John L. Lewis's appeal for support to the striking French miners has sounded a clarion call for international labor solidarity. For the first time in years, a top-ranking American union leader has voiced the identity of class interests between the American workers and those of another land.

Lewis wrote AFL President William Green on Oct. 27 asking Green, as a supporter of Truman and his foreign policies, "why do you not have him stop the shooting of French coal miners who are hungry?" Lewis pointed out that "Truman controls the money bags of the Marshall Plan, upon which the tottering French government subsists."

At bottom in the French mine strike are the terrible conditions of the miners. That is why 350,000 miners defy the government and its armed forces. The Scripps-Howard correspondent writes on Oct. 25 from France:

"The majority of the miners are supporting the strike because they are miserably paid. A French miner gets the equivalent of $33 for a month's work. They are supporting the strike because they have no confidence that their inept government will do anything to help them."  
 
 
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