Vol.63/No.39 November 8, 1999
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November 15, 1974
HOUSTON — In an ominous escalation of the drive against undocumented workers, U.S. Attorney General William Saxbe has called for the deportation to Mexico next year of one million "illegal aliens."He charged that undocumented workers hold millions of jobs, draw social services ranging from schooling to welfare, and drain funds from the nation's economy by sending "large amounts" of money home.
Speaking in the Texas border city of Brownsville Oct. 30, Saxbe said he had recommended to the president that the Immigration and Naturalization Service budget be increased by $50-million and that 2,200 employees — mostly border patrolmen — be added to the department.
Saxbe said he was encouraged that President Ford and Mexican President Luis Echeverría had agreed during their recent border meeting to undertake joint study and planning on the problem.
During the past several years a movement has developed in the barrios against the victimization of the undocumented workers. In the face of this sinister new drive it becomes especially urgent that a broad, effective movement be built around the demand "Stop the deportations!"
November 14, 1949
BULLETIN, Nov. 9 — The United Mine Workers Policy Committee, meeting in Chicago today, passed a resolution instructing the soft-coal miners to return to work until Nov. 30, on the basis of the old contract that expired last July. This is believed to be a move to forestall government intervention that was being prepared against the mine strike.Nov. 8 — The mine strike has become the main center of union struggle now that settlements have been made with the tough Little Steel corporations, headed by Bethlehem, Republic and Jones and Laughlin. U.S. Steel remains the major steel holdout.
The Supreme Court has in effect set the seal of approval on government strikebreaking by means of injunctions with a decision on Nov. 7 upholding the 1948 "contempt" fine of $1,410,000 levied against the United Mine Workers. Asked by reporters to comment on this ruling John L. Lewis replied:
"What can one say about a Supreme Court decision?"
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