Vol. 75/No. 26      July 18, 2011

The same day other mercenaries opened fire on the passenger boat that ferries working people from the town of Rama in central Nicaragua to the port of Bluefields on the Atlantic Coast.

The July 3 slaughter in northern Nicaragua and on the boat to Bluefields occurred less than two weeks after the U.S. House of Representatives approved $100 million for the mercenaries it claims are “freedom fighters.”  
 
July 10 & 17, 1961
The fight to end racial segregation at the municipally owned swimming pool in Monroe, North Carolina, threatens to break into armed conflict. Teen-aged pickets, led by Robert F. Williams, local president of the NAACP, began picketing the pool June 18. Two days later city officials closed the pool for “repairs.” Williams announced that as soon as the pool re-opened “wade-in” action would be taken.

White supremacists threatened to kill any wade-in participants. Williams and other Monroe Negroes responded by openly carrying guns (legally permitted in N.C.) in areas where white racists are known to hang out. Shots were fired over the heads of pickets as the protest against racial segregation continued.  
 
December 12, 1936
Mass delegations representing the American Federation of Government Employees and the Workers’ Alliance stormed the San Francisco Headquarters Saturday to protest the wholesale lay-offs of W.P.A. [Works Progress Administration] employees.

A delegation from the AFGE of about 200 members demand[ed] the reinstatement of those laid-off and withdrawal of the program for further curtailment of the personnel. Coupled with the militant action of the AFGE, a delegation of 300 members of the Workers’ Alliance, locally composed of WPA laborers, carried on a demonstration on its own part.

Some 300 members stormed the office of State Supervisor Wakefield with essentially the same demands.  
 
 
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