Vol. 72/No. 36      September 15, 2008

Voting for the resolution were the delegations from Afghanistan, Bulgaria, the Congo, and Cuba. The representatives of the two imperialist countries on the committee, Australia and Norway, voted against. Abstaining were the Ivory Coast, Chile, Fiji, and India.

Whether the resolution, which was drafted by Cuba, Afghanistan, and Syria, will be considered by the UN General Assembly when it reopens September 20 remains to be seen. Last year, the U.S. delegation, through intensive arm-twisting, was able to defeat a Cuban-sponsored resolution to discuss Puerto Rico’s status.  
 
September 15, 1958
Five New Jersey organizations denounced the House Un-American Activities Committee Sept. 6 and urged that its “investigations” of alleged Communist Activities cease. The five are the Rutgers Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, Newark Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, New Jersey Council of Americans for Democratic Action, Newark Local of AFL-CIO American Federation of Teachers and the New Jersey Region of the American Jewish Congress.

The five groups took the stand following Newark “hearings” by the Un-American Activities Committee from Sept. 3 to 5. Their statement characterized the “hearings” as marked by “prejudgment, one-sidedness, irresponsible charges and refusal to allow victims of attack and defamation the right to confront their accusers.”  
 
September 16, 1933
The strongest sector of the nation-wide strike of silk workers, its Paterson division of more than 25,000 men, holds firm. The tie-up in this city has closed every shop, the looms are idle and the workers have responded 100 percent solid to the strike call.

Men and women, of all nationalities, young and old, those who have never known the meaning of union organizations and veterans of class struggle, are banding side by side on the picket lines in huge, enthusiastic strike meetings displaying a spirit of militancy equaled only by the heroic battle of 1913.

The great virility of this struggle is vividly demonstrated by the pouring out of the mills of more than 15,000 dye workers who for the first time in 20 years have taken their stand on the picket line ready to see the fight to the end.  
 
 
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